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They're fucking Google. If they dig the streets up and give me 10 Gbps fiber I will be more than happy to show up to city council and yell the shit away from an
by dheera 2y ago
They're fucking Google. If they dig the streets up and give me 10 Gbps fiber I will be more than happy to show up to city council and yell the shit away from any NIMBY old fart that says no.
- lokar 2y agoIt’s more that CA law makes it easy for comcast to tie it up in the courts forever, regardless of what your city council says.
- TulliusCicero 2y agoAnd more NIMBYs will show up to scream about Google overrunning local government. It is extremely easy to make hugely powerful corporations the villain, for obvious reasons, and this doesn't stop being true in the case where they want something actually good.
- consumer451 2y agoSorry to have creeped into your bio, but what is your bandwidth in Munich?
- manquer 2y agoAnd yet all these mega corps can spend 100s of millions on lobbying and get favorable law passed or regulation taken care whether labor, FTC or taxes or EPA . The local council is apparently the last bastion of democracy that can ward of influence of their largest tax payers and the wealthiest residents who are their employees