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Fuck you Tony Abbott and fuck your "Liberal" party of profit-mongers!!!

First they crippled the NBN. Then they blew out its budget. Now they are leveraging its monopolistic power.

Step 1: Build a single national broadband network πŸ‘·‍♂️
Step 2: Legislate everyone switches to it and phase out every other infrastructure (ADSL) i.e. establish monopoly by design πŸ‘‘
Step 3: Profit πŸ’ΈπŸ’ΈπŸ’Έ

Source: https://amp.9news.com.au/article/...

Comments
  • 5
    "potential price hike for customers who watch Netflix, Stan and other bandwidth-sapping streaming services"

    Net Neutrality fucked up
  • 4
    Remove individual choice -> make everything worse.

    Whenever you see/read/think about politics, keep this in mind. It holds true every single time.
  • 2
    @Jilano The illusion of choice is not a choice at all, so it still applies.

    Your example effectively reduces your choices, which in turn makes things worse. Both for you and for the market (fewer consumer choices -> less incentive to innovate -> stagnant products. Also increases the likelihood of price hikes.)
  • 2
    I saw that streaming is going to cost more to use.
    Like wtf, I already pay absurb prices (compared to other parts of the world) for half assed Internet (HFC) And I have to already pay to use streaming services... but no, you slimy fuckers want me to pay you, to be able to also pay someone else, to watch a fucking movie.

    Hi ho, hi ho, I'm back to torrents I go!
  • 1
    @Jilano now the hard part, identifying the safer places of the scurvy web in 2019 🏴‍☠️
  • 2
    @C0D4 Ditto. Apparently this is all just a big power play between Murdock and NBN and as per usual us peasants are feeling the pain 😭
  • 3
    Never voted for Liberal morons. NBN is just one of their screw ups.
  • 1
    @ammadfa not the NBN we voted for either. Which makes it worse.
  • 1
    @C0D4 How much is this absurd price?
  • 1
    @Konsole $70/Month for a max
    of 50Mbps (I sit between 30-45Mbps)
  • 2
    @C0D4 Damn....
    I pay like 8$ a month. Though tbh the speed doesn't go above 30mbps
  • 2
    I don’t know what it is with Australia and infrastructure projects, screw ups without fail. I also remember reading recently that the NSW gov spent $2 billion on new trains that were too wide for tunnels...🀦‍♂️
  • 2
    @Konsole yep. It's fucktastic πŸ‘
  • 3
    @abirz hahahahahahahahahahahababababababababahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahabahahabahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahababahahahahahahahahahahahahaabahahahahahhaahaha

    I'm crying with laughter right now.
    Thought you were joking but then saw this

    https://news.com.au/technology/...
  • 3
    @abirz
    "It takes a special type of incompetence to buy trains that don’t fit through the tunnels,” 

    Man I am laughing so hard...πŸ˜†
  • 1
    @abirz and @C0D4 I'm laughing with you mate now πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ I didn't know that either, how did I miss that beauty πŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜…
  • 1
    Btw, while that sore topic is still fresh the latest edition is already gaining momentum: 2km of tram lines on George St is well past deadline and twice over budget... and only 70-80% completed 😭
  • 2
    @NoMad this feels like they didn't learn from the tilt trains, if memory serves me right they ran into platforms.
  • 1
    @Jilano this is the scurvy web after all, a scallywag has no tax free havens these days.

    I hear Yts and 1337x are of the friendly kind though.
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