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America has always had terrible internet access, Congress long ago created monopolies for telephony and cable video and the legacy of those policies are still t
by mobilefriendly 9y ago
America has always had terrible internet access, Congress long ago created monopolies for telephony and cable video and the legacy of those policies are still the problem today (two massive and completely different regulatory regimes and two industries that are totally politicized and the largest political donors).
Similarly Amtrak is a government monopoly disaster, there's no opportunity for private investment in U.S. passenger rail. Wikipedia says there are 1,500 private passenger rail companies in Germany. There are none here, outside of a handful of tourist experience lines. Our privately owned freight rail is, however, the finest in the world.
- geff82 9y agoRemember: at least the US were the first country to ever have internet at all :) So from whatever we profit now, USA invented it.
- coldtea 9y agoWell, Switzerland (CERN) was the first place to have the world wide web...
- albertgoeswoof 9y agoDon't forget that Tim Berners-lee is British
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- HillaryBriss 9y agoany country that pioneers a technology and implements the first generation of it will tend to lag as the second and third generations of that technology are developed.
- s73ver 9y agoAnd how does that get me better internet access?
- grogenaut 9y agoYou seem to forget that the freight rail companies all used to do passenger rail and purposefully divested themselves of it.