Election rant 6: broadband envy
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If they weren't taking the moral and economic high road, an Edison-esque response would be to set up a pornographic and file-sharing website and serve up helpings of high-def hedonism to prove that the NBN really is, as some critics argue, only about faster access to porn and pirated movies.
Of course, that won't happen — although it would be, among other things, amusing. Yet I would suggest that not only are the Coalition fighting wounded, but that they are even envious of Labor when it comes to broadband policy.
They'll deny it, of course. However, the almost universal backlash against the Coalition's policy can't have gone unnoticed even by Abbott, a confessed non-tech-head, who is probably ruing the day he agreed to back such an anaemic, ineffectual policy as that proffered by the Coalition. Abbott and Smith call Labor's NBN a white elephant, but they have chosen to fight it with a herring.
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source: http://www.zdnet.com.au/election-rant-6-broadband-envy-339305360.htm?omnRef=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.au%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DNBN%2520%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF-8%26tbo%3Du%26tbs%3Dnws%3A1%26source%3Dog%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwn