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0 pointsxg157y ago0 comments

I think ISPs would be welcoming to that change. They'd market as "WWW-Providers" or "Social media providers" and most people would be happy.

But hey, if you have advanced needs, no problem, let me refer you too our Gaming Provider and Streaming Provider subsidiaries.

Oh you need actual technical access to the internet because you write your own software? Tricky, but I'm sure our Business Technology Services Provider subsidiary will have the service you need. (You do have a business, right?)

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bb887y ago

> I think ISPs would be welcoming to that change. They'd market as "WWW-Providers" or "Social media providers" and most people would be happy.

They'd also become unreliable and untrustworthy.

"Mom, I'm going over to Timmy's house tonight. They have _good_ Internet"

ge0rg7y ago

"Mom, we need to move downtown, where there are two competing shady ISPs and not just the one we've got here, so we can buy different packages from both to get 95% of the Internet we need."

gargravarr7y ago

"Mom, I'm going over to Timmy's house tonight. They have more internet, not just Facebook!"

xg15OP7y ago

"Hold on... they have what?! I'll talk with Timmy's mother - and you don't go anywhere. The nerve of her to her own child roam around unsecured just like that. What if you'd hit one of those pedophile sites?"

(Meanwhile this whole exchange is probably already obsolete because who visits their people's houses when you have phones?)

stickdogg7y ago

No doubt. That is absolutely how it would work out.

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