With Amazon, Facebook, Google, and other Big Tech firms, how long do you think it will take for America's broadband ISPs to get the same attention? Because they probably should.
So says an excellent piece by arstechnica's Tom Simonite:
I live in Canada, where broadband access is more affordable, so this issue wasn't top of mind for me, but Simonite's piece raises some excellent points; the telecom oligopoly that has been allowed to develop south of the border is just insane, and absolutely needs to be reigned in, or broken up, or at least broken open. Here's hoping that Democrats get a chance to do so; with everything they'll have to deal with (assuming they get control House, Senate, and White House, of course), their dance card is going to be pretty damn full for the next couple of years.
Simonite's piece is excellent, and well worth a read - there's a lot more over at arstechnica than what I've extracted above - so go give them some clicks.
The #DeleteFacebook
grassroots movement may seem to have stalled, but privacy and
anti-monopoly advocacy groups aren't waiting for consumer pressure alone
to goad Facebook into doing the right thing. Far from it, actually; they're hauling out the big guns.
I'd rather have seen U.S. lawmakers jump on this themselves, having recognized a winning issue when they saw it, but I'll take this as a consolation prize.