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[ale] Tenn screws state with assbackwards broadband law.

When you work in a government bureaucracy long enough, you come to expect inefficiency, ignorance, incompetence, and corruption.  When you get anything else, it is just a pleasant surprise.  This message written by a government employee in a state that has had the head of all three branches of state government removed in the past year (Alabama).  

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu

On 4/12/17, 12:13 PM, "ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Kyle Brieden" <ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of kyle at txmoose.com> wrote:

    I don't pretend to understand how government *actually* works, but this 
    just seems like pure, bald-faced corruption.  How does something like 
    this actually happen?  Seriously.
    
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    Very respectfully,
    Kyle Brieden
    
    On 12-04-2017 12:49, Jim Kinney wrote:
    > This is why society is doomed to fail: lobbyists
    > 
    > https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/tennessee-could-give-taxpayers-americas-fastest-internet-for-free-but-it-will-give-comcast-and-atandt-dollar45-million-instead
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