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Problem is that we live in an environment where a company like AT&T can lobby for basically anything they want, and have basically no accountability when they d
by 6SixTy 2y ago
Problem is that we live in an environment where a company like AT&T can lobby for basically anything they want, and have basically no accountability when they don't meet their obligations.
You even have people telling stories where they could get fiber service, but the provider just doesn't want to.
- xp84 2y agoWhat's most tragic is how cheap lobbying is, or more accurately, how great the ROI is. A company like AT&T, or a defense contractor, or an oil company, spends low millions on lobbying, not billions, and as a result reaps enormous windfalls in the tens of billions. I don't have any idea how to fix "money in politics" because first amendment is so tied up in it once you try to do anything, and they've mastered indirection so well that any restrictions are easily worked around by astroturf PACs.