{"id":4583,"date":"2023-05-20T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2023-05-20T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T19:30:03","slug":"thanks-now-we-pay-through-the-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2023\/05\/thanks-now-we-pay-through-the-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, now we pay through the nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cBut it was also clear to me that having the government provide the network indefinitely wasn\u2019t going to fly. A network isn\u2019t something you can just buy; it\u2019s a long-term, continuing expense. And government doesn\u2019t do that well. <strong>Government runs by fad and fashion<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Wolff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Wolff<\/a> in The Dream Machine.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, because the private world doesn\u2019t? LMAO<\/p>\n<p>America today pays for its internet \u2013which is as necessary as water and electricity, far more than it should. Thanks, business world.<\/p>\n<p>I pay $50\/month to lease a phone number (I\u2019m barely using any data) while phone call quality in 2023 in California is worse than in 1999 in France. It\u2019s borderline walkie-talkie like here. Private carriers are not investing in their networks. It\u2019s all landlord\/rent behavior now. Do nothing, collect money, bam.<\/p>\n<p>Today we have free internet through initiatives sponsored by companies like Google, offering laptops that spy on us while they gather and sell all that data, making absurd amounts of money to do nothing but close stupid projects.<\/p>\n<p>Government internet might have been good too, or not worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut it was also clear to me that having the government provide the network indefinitely wasn\u2019t going to fly. A network isn\u2019t something you can just buy; it\u2019s a long-term, continuing expense. And government doesn\u2019t do that well. Government runs by fad and fashion.\u201d Stephen Wolff in The Dream Machine. Oh, because the private world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}