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Install Windows posted:Why do you want it to not go through, exactly? An assfucking is an assfucking, it's true. The concern is that they'll shift from only assfucking their customers to assfucking the content producers and the customers.
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AlternateAccount posted:What? Why would anyone WANT it to go through? How can it possibly be any sort of benefit to the cable subscribing public as a whole? Fishmech wants it to go through because he's fishmech. It offers no benefit at all - the most benefit to the public would be to cut up comcast and TWC along state lines and make independent companies out of them all.
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Feb 18, 2014 18:45
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Install Windows posted:That will literally never happen, and also wouldn't provide any benefit. You're just cargo culting some vague idea of competition with that.. But those baby cables would never compete. It worked just fine with Ma Bell and it would make it literally impossible for them to assrape content providers or engage in anticompetitive lobbying to the degree that they are currently doing so. corgski fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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Feb 18, 2014 19:51
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Install Windows posted:It didn't work with the Baby Bells. The baby bells did not compete, they had and have designated operating areas. They also bought each other and outside carriers like GTE. GTE lasted well into the 90s, maybe the early 2000s, before being sucked up by verizon, and I didn't realize I was still renting my home phone. The breakup of Ma Bell made it easier for other companies to compete, as well as removing their ability to collude as effectively. They didn't have to compete with each other, other companies came in and engaged them in competition - more effectively now that they were not a nationwide asset-laden behemoth of a telecom company. corgski fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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