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If you're not Australian, this is completely unsurprising.

Murdoch owns 2/3rds of all news media here. His headlines ensured the centre-right election victory in 2011 which was terrible for many reasons.

That government then cancelled our already in-progress national fibre broadband rollout in favour of inferior VDSL2, because (at the time) higher bandwidth was seen as a threat to cable TV. This was a multi-billion dollar waste of taxpayer money, and we now have the ~70th worst internet in the world for the ~10th highest price.

Have a guess who owns the cable TV networks.



> Murdoch owns 2/3rds of all news media here. His headlines ensured the centre-right election victory in 2011 which was terrible for many reasons.

So then his headlines also ensured the centre-left election victory in 2022. Was that also terrible for many reasons?

> Have a guess who owns the cable TV networks.

Are you genuinely trying to make the claim that pay TV providers like Netflix and Disney Plus and friends don't work in Australia when they plainly do and have done for a long time? VDSL2 was always capable of it.

As conspiracy theories go I think your one needs some revising.


ITT: LNP shills think 50Mbps internet is good


Pretty weak, kid. Admit to yourself that your conspiratorial thinking is irrational, straightforwardly dumb, and unsupported by the practical realities. You'll feel better.




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