Explain this to me Americans.
Source: Broadbandnow.com
And this
>>55427613
and they can't even use it because of data caps and going to jail for torrenting
kek
>0% of Germans have access to 1 gigabit broadband
wew lad
>>55427613
What is there to explain? 1.7% of Arizonians have access to gigabit internet service. Seems straightforward to understand.
>>55427649
ahem
https://torrentfreak.com/pirating-tv-shows-and-a-movie-costs-finnish-man-over-e32000-160705/
>>55427691
same in Germany and UK
I don't know a first world country where torrenting isn't persecuted
And no, Romania is not a first world country
>>55427669
/thread
>>55427669
See second picture
>>55427691
>finnish
SPROLÖLÖLÖLÖ
>>55427654
It's depressing really.
the american public has been fooled into voting for things like "the free market" to allow these companies to "deliver better service" and people voted to allow that. the result is shitty options in the market. it doesn't help that arizona is even more sparsely populated than the OP's school immediately after a shooting.
i've been doing it for years and at this point i think it's not fair to mock the US for shitty telecom infrastructure. for one thing, it's legal and common to dump millions (billions, in some cases) into what amounts to propaganda to encourage people to vote one way or another in the US. the level to which money has been poured into politics in the US at this kind of meta level would absolutely make anyone's head spin. the only places in the world with this much money swirling *around* politics in this sort of liminal space where politicians also get kickbacks and shit tend to be countries you think of as corrupt. not saying the US is; the laws specifically permit this sort of stuff. but then again, legal corruption and legal kickbacks are still corruption and kickbacks.
the second issue is that the US is so fucking sparsely populated. it's closer to africa than any country in europe in terms of population density. in fact, i'm pretty sure africa's population density is higher. that's how fucked the US is.
>>55427915
>that's how fucked the US is.
That's how comfy* the US is
Enjoy living in your commieblocks
I have 300 Mbps Time Warner regardless of living in the burbs
>>55427915
Then how do small ass Scandinavian towns get very fast internet?
>>55428008
There are no small towns there, only big ass commieblocks in big cities.
Their socialist nany government doesn't allow them to have property
and they are forced to pay it, but it's easier to wire up because you have thousands of apartments in a commieblock
>>55428008
is this a serious question? i feel like the two points i made should directly answer that without me needing to explain it.
tell me you don't get it or i'll ignore this question.
>>55427949
i'm in the US. i have gigabit internet. having good internet and talking with some objectivity about the general state of things are not mutually exclusive.
>>55427654
>>55427794
That's because we never properly privatized the state monopoly for telecommunication.
This way we ended up with the worst of both capitalism and socialism:
A company that almost has a full market monoply, yet almost all the technology was funded by taxes
That equals to:
>no competition because no one can compete with a nationwide copper network that is already fully built and paid off
>BUT we can also not politically hold them accountable for literally doing nothing and preventing further competition because they're a private company and it's their job to get as much revenue with as little effort as possible
>>55427737
I don't follow. The statistics are pretty easy to understand.
>>55427915
You're retarded.
America has shitty internet infrastructure because ISPs have been allowed to dominate the market with no restrictions or competition, largely because the public is computer-illiterate. It has nothing to do with your Marxist crap and everything to do with the fact that the market at large is too ignorant to self-regulate.
Thankfully, this is beginning to change as the public and the government as a whole are getting wiser to major ISPs' bullshit.
