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UK Labour party pledges free broadband funded in part by Silicon Valley tax
The Verge via MS ^
| 15 November 2019
| James Vincent
Posted on 11/15/2019 3:40:32 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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Nationalized internet...watch out for this in your neighborhood. I see many articles about expanding broadband access in rural areas....these are just means of turning the internet into a public utility so the socialists can monitory every citizen.
To: Erik Latranyi
The party said it would nationalize part of UK telecoms firm BT to achieve its goal Socialists......is there anything they can't achieve ?
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posted on
11/15/2019 3:44:38 AM PST
by
onona
(Just tell me where to muster, I'll bring my shit)
To: onona
FREE! so we can monitor your every existance
To: Erik Latranyi
introduce new taxes on Silicon Valley tech giants like Apple and Facebook to fund the networks maintenance.Thats mighty nice of them. I wonder if this could cause British firms to be taxed? It seems to me, that any ass hat 🎩 dictator in the world, could figure he could get Americans to pay for his own 3rd world countrys infrastructure, by taxing American companies. I am not a fan of Silicon Valley big tech firms, by any means, but is this a valid point? I dont know enough about it to know for sure. Maybe other Freepers know more about this than I do. 😁
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:02:25 AM PST
by
Mark17
(Dad of Air Force Officer in pilot training. US Air Force aircraft, go faster than US Army tanks)
To: Mark17
British companies will see the cost of their internet service explode.
It is the socialist way.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:06:24 AM PST
by
Erik Latranyi
(The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
To: Erik Latranyi
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:06:28 AM PST
by
Drango
(1776 = 2020)
To: Erik Latranyi; All
Ummm ... Apple and Facebook may just leave.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:09:34 AM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
To: Erik Latranyi
So the government can do to the internet what the NHS has done to health care.
Guess the meme ban and link tax won’t take care of the uppity citizenry fast enough.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:15:13 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: mewzilla
This isn’t about cost.
It’s about control.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:15:52 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: Erik Latranyi
Watch out for the pop ups ...
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:17:29 AM PST
by
11th_VA
To: Erik Latranyi
Then it’s not free, is it?
It’s being paid for by the tax.
And people are too much idiots to figure this out.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:19:52 AM PST
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Erik Latranyi
this has been posted three times already .
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:22:30 AM PST
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists h)
To: onona
Socialists... buy everything with others money, yet build nothing.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:31:42 AM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Erik Latranyi
And the number of the Labour Party 'free" broadband internet service will be
666.
The BBC doesn't quite have total mind control, so the socialists will try to control the internet. (Substitute the first 'B' with a 'C' and you've got the same schitt in Kanadahar.)
To: Erik Latranyi
Careful, Britain—nothing like a big dose of that “full-fiber broadband” to give you a nasty case of cyberrhea.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:51:26 AM PST
by
_longranger81
(Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the defenseless; care for the unloved.)
To: Erik Latranyi
And they’ll do it just before StarLink renders the tremendous cost obsolete, wasting tens of billions of taxpayer money.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:57:15 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
(Specialization is for insects.)
To: metmom
And people are too much idiots to figure this out.They pay a boob tube tax. Nuff said.
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posted on
11/15/2019 4:57:35 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: ctdonath2
The Labor Party will have Huawei manage the whole thing, giving the Chinese full control over the UK.
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posted on
11/15/2019 5:04:42 AM PST
by
Erik Latranyi
(The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
To: metmom
Then its not free, is it? The only thing that's truly free is ignorance.
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posted on
11/15/2019 5:04:59 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: Mark17
I rarely post here but in response to your question I think this would qualify as a tariff. As such it would challenge any trade agreements we have.
Such an action should result in a retaliatory tariff against the participating UK members in a sane world.
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posted on
11/15/2019 5:12:58 AM PST
by
Skwor
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