Thread by @doctorow

When it comes to broadband, America is the original shithole country: a land of copper wires wrapped in newspaper, then dipped in tar and draped over shrubs and sold to suckers with no other choice at some of the highest prices in the western world.

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America's broadband barons are farcically dirty, and while president after president has given them a free ride to one degree or another, it was during the Trump years that they really got SAVAGE, fucking over the entire nation under the idiotic grin of FCC Chair @ajitpai.

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Now Pai is out of office - and blocking me on Twitter (oh, *diddums*) - and America has a chance to fix things. REALLY fix things: not just showering telco monopolists in money for their shareholders in exchange for bored frauds purporting to show broadband investment.

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Actual. Fucking. Change.

Fiber to every goddamned curb.

Biden FCC chair @JRosenworcel wants to know how you feel about your ISP.

Try to keep it clean, but let her know.

https://twitter.com/JRosenworcel/status/1374093168816369672

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It's all grist for the new FCC Broadband Data Task Force, which is poised to end the official farce that the internet is a glorified video-on-demand service and acknowledge the truth:

theverge.com/2021/3/22/2234…

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Broadband is the single wire that delivers free speech, a free press, free assembly, education, family life, employment, health, opportunity, civic and political engagement, and every other necessity for a decent and dignified life in the 21st century.

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Recently, everything we did involved the net. Today, everything we do REQUIRES it. You deserve better than a greedy, indifferent monopolist whose only interaction with the national telecoms regulator is to pop in for a periodic massage and complimentary mani-pedi.

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Here's Chairwoman Rosenworcel's form. You know what to do. It's a new day in America.

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ETA - If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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