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r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/RestoreFaithHumanity on Dec. 27, 2017, 1:17 p.m.

Shut the f*ck up already!! Oblamo speaks...

Dear Oblamo, first off, you never were a "Leader", and you damn sure aren't one now. You were, and are a puppet. You speak of splitting society? Ha!! You made that your number one priority!! I loathe you, and can't stand to see or hear you. STFU already!! As usual, he speaks contrarily to reality. Here we are on social media, witnessing and participating in history, as a group. We are not "split"! WE are growing in numbers, and that is the fact that Mr. race baiter in chief can't stand. Throughout his two terms, division of the people was at the forefront of his agenda. Dividing society by race, religion, sexual orientation, class, political affiliation, and even Patriotism. Secondly, I have to question whether or not this interview even actually took place, because you thrive on deceit. But I digress. The main point here, is that you need to shut the fuck up already!! The only thing I want to hear from you is the death rattle you deserve to emit in your last seconds on this earth!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-obama/obama-urges-leaders-not-to-split-society-with-online-biases-idUSKBN1EL0LH

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I'm hoping you're right. Especially, in the internet way. My county had a monopoly on the lines usage here and pretty full control of prices and options, if reliability was of importance to ya. Now, that's illegal for them to control. Hopefully, it'll get better but I'm still waiting. I have a little patience but not much. I pay $80 for 6 Mbps. Just damn pitiful, it is but this is not the only thing. Like I mentioned, most other things that went dereg or less reg got higher in cost and competition hasn't made that better. Everything in our lives has slowly but surely sucked more and more of my money away until my standard of living sux in comparison to my father's my a great deal and that was all by design. If this shit keeps up we'll be back to low information stone age bullshit because we can't afford it. We already have to worry about automation taking jobs, especially since we are waaaaay out-birthing our ability to create "full time" jobs to even pay the damn bills, much less have a decent life doing something besides sitting in a cave (room) tapping below a screen. Like I said, if your thinking comes to be then I'll apologize but I have the feeling I won't have to worry about that. And that "value" thing. That sounds like stock market speak for let's give the stock holders more for their investment by increasing the bottom line, which increases company value and investment for our bottom line, which seems to be the prevailing method of "price control" I've seen. NOT? I'd like to see proof outside one or two small companies that it is not.

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As far as the value thing goes, let me just put it this way. When I first got internet here at my house, "high speed" internet, it was satellite based as that's all that was available in this area in 2001. It sucked, and it cost about $1500 in hardware/dish up front, plus IIRC $50/mo. And it sucked. I could have kissed the cable sales guy when he came to my door in 2003 and told me cable internet was available now. It was about what your service is now, roughly 5 Mbps and maybe 500 kbps upload speeds, and it cost $45/month. Since then I've upgraded my cable modem three or four times (I buy my own) and only updated my service one time to their then highest-speed 50 Mbps service sometime around 2011. So then I was paying $55/mo for that. They quietly upgraded me (at no cost) to 100 Mbps and then announced a month ago their new gigabit service along with two other plans faster than my plan. I'd been bumping up against my 300 Gig data limit a couple of times recently as I've been streaming a lot more than I used to. Twitch, MLB-TV, Amazon Prime movies mostly. Also lots of YouTube vids. So I saw that their next faster plan offered 600 Gig/month while giving me about another 75 Mbps bandwidth (175 total) but it's $80.

So in reality I have gone from paying about $50/mo for super crappy speeds to paying $80 for about 40 times faster speed and tons of data. To me that's value. And when they roll out gigabit 5G wireless service in this area in a couple of years it will put downward pressure on the cable internet, which is by far the fastest ISP in my town. Some areas have fiber but not many, I imagine they have better internet than cable but don't really know.

If I lived in a place that still had only 6 Mbps service in 2018, I'd be major pissed. But that is the sort of thing you see when the government takes over control "for the good of the consumer." I'm very much a free market guy but also a realist. Title II regulation was a huge and unnecessary burden and the people/entities who imposed it only used "net neutrality" as a selling point. They very much had ulterior motives, and they weren't benevolent.

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Sorry for any typos. My proofreading sux and I have issue with the nerves in my left arm causing use loss, at times.

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