Hacker News

5703 readers

343 users here now

NOTICE: The bot occasionally has downtime, sorry about that. I'm working on adding better monitoring and error recovery so I can get notified faster.

Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.

The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.

Source of the RSS Bot.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se

rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se

328

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't (stefan.schueller.net)

submitted 4 months ago by rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se

85 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://irregulators.org/200-billion-broadband-scandal/

TLDR; $200-$300 billion fraud committed by American telecoms in the 90s because of corruption, deregulation, and shady business practices - set the US back decades technologically and economically.