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Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)
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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Locally community owned nonprofit isps are the future. Of you live in an area with that, switch over now. Isps in the next year or so are going to sign Ai data scrapping contracts and allow federal censorship like China's great firewall. You heard it here first.

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I gladly pay more for my local fiber connection than it would cost for Xfinity. Fuck these greedy corporate shithead monopolies with their shitty service. I’ll pay whatever it costs to support a local company instead.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

how would a community owned ISP deny federal censorship?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It'll be the same way the try to force broadcasters from airing late night hosts. Wave money and power in front of Comcast/Spectrum/Google executives and just watch. Any content seen as not favorable to Christian Nationalism will be screened. This administration is too lazy and too dumb to do a full blackout. But many Americans agree to lazy to fight for freedoms so a lot of people will ultimately be unable to access censored content. They could also achieve this by going after access point hardware manufacturers as well. It's all in project 2025 my dude.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Of you live in an area with that, switch over now.

hahaha lol lol lol you're hilarious