This week I was finally connected to fibre internet, after years of waiting. I was the first in my neighbourhood in a thriving rural village in eastern Ontario to be connected. So this article from 2019 describing how an impoverished county in Kentucky accomplished the same thing through their local cooperative is particularly relevant to me. As the article explains, "The big telecom companies aren't going to do it, because it's not economical and they have shareholders to answer to." And that was the case here in Casselman, and why we waited so long. This link comes via an article by Cory Doctorow on the inequalities caused by the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few billionaires, and how people can organize against it. But it requires law to enable, as outlined in 'Constructing Countervailing Power: Law and Organizing in an Era of Political Inequality,' And it's not clear that the people have the power to change the law. Not now, at least. Via Scott Leslie.
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