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#SilentSunday

@J12t @debs Not sure what you mean by 'recent' or why it matters. In any case, I've watched a number of public infrastructure programs roll out in my lifetime.

@J12t @debs Public infrastructure initiatives actually have a very good history, though maybe not in Santa Clara. Roads, water and sewage, electricity and telephony were all public infrastructure initiatives here, and all deeply successful. In the early days of the internet we also had widely popular community access points across our country.

Where public investment tends to be less successful is where there are private sector business interests actively lobbying and blocking it.

@lightweight In the case of my employer, teams is integrated with other Office software already in use and, more importantly, employs the same authentication and access management. So they can secure Teams in a way they can't secure the other platforms.

@ben RestOfWorld is one of my regular reads, pretty much daily. First rate coverage of regions overlooked in western media.