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Never forget that during California wildfires less than 10 years ago, first responders were cut off from communications because Verizon cut them off.
I'm glad that incident is getting remembrance now. We're now seeing how capital control of services is a national security risk.
Elon Musk is exhibit A in the case for why the people need to seize the means of production.
"Oops! It seems you have reached the maximum usage for your plan! Please call a representative to find a plan better suited to your particular usage volume, or text "$5B" to top up with extra credits."
They keep testing the waters with this shit, cut their balls off to stop it
I just came here to remind folks:
https://www.courthousenews.com/verizon-apologizes-for-throttling-firefighter-data-during-wildfire/
"Apologizes"
Then sets a major marketing campaign (super bowl commercials?) about how supportive they are of first responders.
Yep. Rinse, repeat, profit.