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US citizens getting screwed over because the government outsourced management of a national resource to the biggest company it could find, that company’s provin
by roughly 3y ago
US citizens getting screwed over because the government outsourced management of a national resource to the biggest company it could find, that company’s proving to be totally incompetent, and oversight is basically nonexistent? Say it ain’t so!
- 0xDEF 3y agoPlenty of countries outsource their ccTLD management to the private sector. It's GoDaddy that is the problem.
- kube-system 3y agoHell, the root zone is controlled by the private sector.
- roughly 3y agoI agree. It’s not the outsourcing, it’s that we picked an incompetent company and then didn’t provide any oversight.
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- strbean 3y agoIn this case it isn't incompetence, it's immorality. Which sucks, but is to be expected from the private sector when there is no oversight.
- asu_thomas 3y ago[flagged]
- roughly 3y agoTo be clear, that’s not what I’m saying at all. Plenty of other governments manage to do this fine; the US government, on the other hand, has been shaped by 40 years of anti-government, pro-business philosophy to both favor the largest institutional partners it can find (very often rewarding size and prior government contracts over any actual competency) and to effectively lack the staff and ability to provide proper oversight. We regularly hand over government functions to partners with no actual incentive to provide more than their bare contractually obligated service while extracting the absolute most from users of those services and wind up getting shitty outcomes and high prices, and somehow this is used to _further_ drive the narrative that government is the problem and we should outsource even more.
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