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0 pointsbb888y ago0 comments

> I think ISPs would be welcoming to that change. They'd market as "WWW-Providers" or "Social media providers" and most people would be happy.

They'd also become unreliable and untrustworthy.

"Mom, I'm going over to Timmy's house tonight. They have _good_ Internet"

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ge0rg8y ago

"Mom, we need to move downtown, where there are two competing shady ISPs and not just the one we've got here, so we can buy different packages from both to get 95% of the Internet we need."

gargravarr8y ago

"Mom, I'm going over to Timmy's house tonight. They have more internet, not just Facebook!"

xg158y ago

"Hold on... they have what?! I'll talk with Timmy's mother - and you don't go anywhere. The nerve of her to her own child roam around unsecured just like that. What if you'd hit one of those pedophile sites?"

(Meanwhile this whole exchange is probably already obsolete because who visits their people's houses when you have phones?)

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