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Every time there's a thread about American ISPs it's like a self-help group meeting in the comments. I imagine a group of citizens of some kind of Orwellian sta
by dagenleg 9y ago
Every time there's a thread about American ISPs it's like a self-help group meeting in the comments. I imagine a group of citizens of some kind of Orwellian state would sound roughly the same - abundant horror stories and what seems like a complete lack of a reasonable alternative or escape. Occasionally a lucky guy jumps in and tells everyone how he had avoided the giant cogs of the system and actually gets a decent service for his money.
It would be quite funny if it wasn't also in equal measure disheartening.
- stinkytaco 9y agoPeople don't go into the comments of an article to say how great everything went, they go on to complain. I see a similar trend on car enthusiast forums or phone hardware forums. For most of us, the Internet works fine. It's not that there's not lots of room to fix things that are broken, but part of the reason those things aren't getting fixed is because for most people it's good enough and therefore the political pressure isn't there.
- PopsiclePete 9y agoIf you go to any news site or section, what do you see? What are the top head-lines? Is it "Friendly neighborhood teenager helps old lady across the street with groceries"?
- diogenescynic 9y agoAmericans don't travel much, so many don't realize how screwed up our country is. America is inferior in so many ways to other develop countries. Trump is only making this worse by appointing crooks to the FCC.
- bitJericho 9y agoAmericans don't want to know what's going on. Americans think the people in power are trying to do good, even though they're not. Americans think the system can be fixed where it's broken, it cannot as it stands.