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We don't have a need for information-free generic partisan comments, so please hold off.

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It's definitely disappointing, I feel that, but don't give up hope! I'd encourage you to engage with your local community to work towards a coop/municipal broadband provider to help alleviate the problem, or even go so far as to start your own wireless ISP.

One person cannot solve this problem, but each of us doing a small part where we each live does move the needle. You are going to need to get involved, and there is going to be a time commitment. Prepare accordingly.

https://muninetworks.org

https://startyourownisp.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/technology/how-to-give-ru...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/2ftsf7/i_own_...

All those links are already clicked for me.

If those resources are not sufficient, let me know what the gaps are so I can add more.

Funding, time mostly.

I ran a small copper ISP/Collocation company for a few years and I miss it, but I'm not quire there to build my own.

I agree that Trump and the republicans are bad on this issue, but it's not like the Dem's did anything about it when they had power in 08-10. They're exactly as complicit and wholly in the pocket of big business, just like the R's are.

That's simply not true. Dems are overwhelmingly in support of net neutrality and under Obama's administration it was not repealed.

Both sides ARE NOT the same on this issue.

The "both parties are the same" is a terrible an intellectually lazy argument. For one, it completely ignores that the Democrat controlled FCC was the one that started putting Net Neutrality regulations in place, including classifying them as Title II carriers. It was the GOP that got rid of that.

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