I remember this being the rumor back then when KDE was about to take over not only Linux first, but then all of desktop computing.

hmmm

So, basically, pirates have been getting PWND.

Government could never provide Internet that is as fast as the private sector!! Let alone faster!! It must be fake news, don't believe it!

Yeah because it was better than doing nothing. The democrats would have even more GLADLY voted for it if it was funded through tax increases on the rich. Instead, Trump & Co. (against *some* republicans to be fair who didn't want to recklessly spend money we don't have) decided to print money out of thin air. The more money you print the less it's worth. Inflation 101.

Both parties have been pumping it in the last couple decades, but Republicans add more debt.

Obama's debt was significantly due to Keynesian response (right or wrong) to the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression - caused by republican deregulation of the housing market.

Trump had no such situation/excuse in his first 3 years when he added $3T to the debt.

Bush Jr. had his foolish and unfunded wars.

Bill Clinton --

Dude, who put out most of the Stimulus checks without funding them? Aka printed trillions upon trillions of dollars out of thin air? Who added $3T to the debt BEFORE Covid when we weren't engaged in any serious war and had a great economy? How the f do you even do that!? THAT is what causes inflation. Economies react over time to policy, not instantly. Inflation doesn't SUDDENLY show up because Joe Biden got sworn in, genius.

In other news, the Internet gave birth to computer viruses, spam, scamming from across the globe, and cryptocurrency itself, along with social media, which has given birth to spreading extremism and eroding democracy.
The development of pharmaceuticals gave birth to the opioid epidemic, television gave birth to the obesity epidemic, and the automobile gave birth to a million road deaths per year.