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Ontario will rip up its $100-million deal with Elon Musk's Starlink internet provider and U.S. companies will be banned from procurement contracts as part of the province's response to President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods.
I probably want a follow-up when this is confirmed.
I want rural Ontarians and all Canadians to have good Internet, but I would like it to be without enriching someone cosplaying as a bond villain trying to overthrow the world.
Starting to wonder if the rural folks should have the Internet at all. Seems they fall prey to misinformation at a much higher rate due to social exclusion and a lack of diverse opinions in close proximity.
I'm half joking... I think
need to add a large tax to these services, and then use that to fund municipal (not private) internet expansion.
Breaking up the Big 3 telecom giants would be almost as good as deeming internet and cell/telephone service a critical utility and taking a large portion over as Crown corps or provincially owned utilities.
I'd love it if people could get good internet without throwing up all that space junk. Elon's been dropping satellites on peoples heads lately, his orbital toasters are leaking so much radiation that they're ruining radio astronomy, and the satellite mesh has gotten dense enough that it's seriously imposing earthbound visual astronomy.
So that people can have Netflicks and porn.
Public, terrestrial internet infrastructure, or bust.
How does this work exactly? If I ripped up my credit card bill, the credit card company is still going to come after me for their money.
Can we stop “planning” and start executing? Trump already admitted yesterday that these tariffs are to “make America rich” and that he's still going to take countries “one way, or another”.
We need to starve them of resources in order to minimize the damage they can do, because the longer this drags on, the greater the chance we lose this country.
And the only way we can “win” is if Americans turn on their government and demand that the oligarchy is dismantled so that power can return to the people. This can be accomplished by making Americans feel exactly what their government is doing to them.
Be sure to burn it so there is nothing to tape back up again.