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This is awesome. But isnit actually going to get built? Whats going to stop companies taking the money and then see nothing being built?

What's going to stop the California govt giving contract to companies like Verizon or Comcast?

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"The bill would require the [Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy] to retain a California based nonprofit entity as a third-party administrator to manage the development, acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of the broadband network, and to submit annually a report to the budget committees of the Legislature on the broadband network, as specified"

(text from the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...)

So they outsource responsibility to a third party so that when the project fails it won't be the people that created it that will be blamed. It's simply amusing to read this stuff while they're trying to figure out what to do with the useless train line they kind of built.

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