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Winners_History t1_iudp89q wrote

Reply to comment by zilozi in U.S. tech giants face pressure from Europe’s telcos to pay for building the internet by thinkB4WeSpeak

If we "can't advance as a species" without paying for what we use, I'd like to hear your definition of "advance".

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IolausTelcontar t1_iuejdlx wrote

Bits are not used or used up. They aren’t a finite resource to be rationed.

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Winners_History t1_iues3eb wrote

Oh? Then I can just run out and pick some off a bush, right? I don't "need" infrastructure to move them around?

Government price-controls invariably lead to one thing - scarcity of the product in question.

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IolausTelcontar t1_iueu3li wrote

Infrastructure is the only thing needed. There is no finite resource to consume. Stop being obtuse.

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xbabyjesus t1_iui7b4p wrote

Network infrastructure is the finite resource. There’s a limit to how much data you can transmit over a network.

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