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This is why we need the state to take back the phone network it paid for in the first place, manage it and rent it out to the Telekom like any other ISP ...
by klaustopher 13y ago
This is why we need the state to take back the phone network it paid for in the first place, manage it and rent it out to the Telekom like any other ISP ...
- Karunamon 13y agoHaving the state own that infrastructure introduces its own concerns though, especially re: privacy and anonymity.
- jevinskie 13y agoIt hasn't been an issue in the US. The telecoms voluntarily provide sensitive customer info to the government.
- mpyne 13y agoIronic then that if you had sent those same communications through the government-organized postal service that it would be much more difficult to legally divulge that info to other parts of the government.
- klaustopher 13y agoI kind of agree. But I get the opinion that provision of basic infrastructure like water supply, electricity, roads, railroad tracks and telecommunications should be handled by a democratic government instead of a profit-oriented enterprise... And additionally, I tend to trust an elected government more than any enterprise that can basically do whatever they want
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- zapdrive 13y agoTry saying that to a conservative. You'll be branded a commie, as if being one is shameful or anything.