[–] MenstruatingMuffin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If I was an american citizen, I would definitely sign this. Good luck guys.
[–] dabork 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Anyone who has no confidence in this needs to do some research into BellSouth. They used to be absolutely enormous (think comcast on steroids and HGH), but eventually they were forced to break into smaller corporations and it quickly balanced the market.
Then again, that was also over 20 years ago and we've lost a lot of corporate accountability since then.
[–] heroinwinsagain ago
There is a fundamental problem with the white house trying to play the role of the legislative.
What people should be doing is actively contacting the people elected to represent them and start there. Stop starting at the whitehouse. the president is in charge of very few things and should be even fewer.
The president isnt the king.
We have a process for this and its not by bypassing congress.
[–] Caboose_Calloway 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Comcast is a government-authorized service monopoly. They are part and parcel of the government. Calling for their breaking up is like calling for the breakup of the military. It will never happen. Ever.
Our only chance is to start laying our infrastructure and building a network of settlement-free peers. This means that each person setting up hardware in their own home and agreeing to pass all network traffic without charge and expecting every other person to do the same.
This is readily possible and the necessary equipment is already on the market. We don't need to grovel to big corps for our internet.
[–] Caboose_Calloway ago
Not exactly. Once all your connections are settlement-free you practically become something like a tier-1 peer. You are the backbone.
[–] G4 ago
Yeah, this won't do a thing.
Even if they did "break off into smaller companies", do you really think they won't just pick their own areas to control and become local monopolies? It makes sense to do this, even if you're a competing ISP. When you control an entire area's Internet connection, they are your bitch. You own them and their money.
[–] dabork 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
It's worked before and it turned out just fine. Look into the anti trust suit involving BellSouth. They had the phone market by the nuts but eventually people got fed up and they had to break apart which opened the door wide for competition.