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overturf600 t1_j9ole2r wrote

Reply to comment by dayaz36 in Bernie Sanders proposes taxes on robots that take jobs by Scarlet_pot2

Well we missed our chance to tax companies for developing business models based on the internet, and we funded that invention.

Seems reasonable to me. But I’m happy just to start charging google, Amazon, and Facebook transaction feeds instead. No reason to enable these corporate welfare moms.

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dayaz36 t1_j9oosrt wrote

Lol what? That made zero sense

Government has the ability right now to create government isps and give everyone free high speed internet, but they won’t because they’re corrupt.

Advocating for businesses to pay fees to use the internet is exactly the opposite point I was making

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Nanaki_TV t1_j9pfi01 wrote

> Government has the ability right now to create government isps and give everyone free high speed internet, but they won’t because they’re corrupt.

I hate the way the government is run more than the avg bc I see it daily for my work but come on... it isn't some magical hand-wave that is preventing this from happening. Just think of how many yards would need dug up for one town to have high speed isp. And if one of the hubs go down? So now you need backups.

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