• hope@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    My prior city ran a survey on whether they should build out fiber to the homes around the city, since they were building their own fiber infrastructure anyway. Despite the city saying it would be cheaper and faster than the existing 0 or 1 options people had, my fellow residents cried communism and the city government scrapped the idea. Infuriating.

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      “ran a survey”, this was the only clue I needed to realize that they never planned to do it in the first place. Surveys are so easy to manipulate that if someone tells you they made a decision based on a survey, that you can immediately assume that what they are really saying is that they made a decision that they knew would be unpopular, obviously biased, or otherwise disastrous, but they wanted to blame the decision on “other people”.

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      15 hours ago

      Americans are too stupid to vote in a lot of cases. why even hold a vote on something like this at all? just get it done. why bother asking permission from people who will answer without understanding the question

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        Look up easement abuse in the US on YouTube, Lehto’s Law or Institute for Justice

        From rail, to cable providers, to city municipalities, easements in the US have been utilized maliciously to destroy and seize peoples properties

        Why bother asking permission?

        In the States, enough people have proven uncivilized enough and willing enough to face the consequences that come with utilizing tools easily and cheaply available at their disposal so that trespassers and even politicians think twice before sending people to mess with other people’s land without asking permission

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      Don’t worry, even if they welcomed it international telecom companies would sue to block it anyway.