<story><title>Don&apos;t Terminate People&apos;s Internet Connections</title><url>https://labs.ripe.net/Members/job_snijders/dont-terminate-peoples-internet-connections</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Stranger43</author><text>If the current strategy of making telecommuting the default takes hold post corvid-19 the governments of the industrialized world is going to be forced to treat internet the same way it treats other core infrastructure like roads or railways which means that nationalization will happen if the industry fail to deliver high speed and low prices to the undeserved rural areas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not an expert, but my local MUD board has made basically no improvements since the invention of plumbing. I happen to know how their systems work and they are designed to be the deadest-simple things that will work reliably forever. There&amp;#x27;s no such thing as a &amp;quot;high performance sewage system&amp;quot; unless you count a really big one as high performance. This attitude generalizes to civil engineers in general who prefer safety over experimentation.&lt;p&gt;Now, let&amp;#x27;s compare this to my state and local governments. They&amp;#x27;re slow, hate change, they&amp;#x27;re very careful about who to give money to because their main problem is avoiding corruption. A prominent local politician campaigned and won by promising to vote no on or veto everything. Every slow-down comes from a totally legitimate anti-corruption rule and you aren&amp;#x27;t going to speed the process up without creating Tammany Hall. My local politicians have only one way to make the news, and that&amp;#x27;s by messing something up. There is no carrot, only a stick.&lt;p&gt;Those two pictures align perfectly! As a result, my water service has never been interrupted, and I have never gone to the polls with a negative idea about anyone on the MUD board. It&amp;#x27;s a great system for everyone involved.&lt;p&gt;Now, my question is, how in the world does this work with internet service, an area in which there are changes at a rate greater than once per century?</text></comment>
<story><title>Don&apos;t Terminate People&apos;s Internet Connections</title><url>https://labs.ripe.net/Members/job_snijders/dont-terminate-peoples-internet-connections</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Stranger43</author><text>If the current strategy of making telecommuting the default takes hold post corvid-19 the governments of the industrialized world is going to be forced to treat internet the same way it treats other core infrastructure like roads or railways which means that nationalization will happen if the industry fail to deliver high speed and low prices to the undeserved rural areas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superhuzza</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure it was probably a typo, but I just want to point out it&amp;#x27;s COVID-19, not CORVID-19. Don&amp;#x27;t want anyone mistakenly thinking this is related to birds of the crow family.</text></comment>