[identity profile] 1800rocker.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
FCC Wants Power. Denied! The FCC is in my opinion A Waste of time! I'm a proud Comcast user and now even prouder. As they liked the ruling as do I. I'm glad it was thrown out it should have been. Why is this Administration is trying to control everything? It's making voters angry. If I want to talk about the news, etc I should be able to. I am a American and I enjoy my freedom and my internet freedom.  

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Date: 7/4/10 11:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
And ninety percent of the US either gets their service from one single provider, or tough fucking shit. Yeah, that's fair.
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Date: 7/4/10 15:21 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thies.livejournal.com
I might be wrong on this, but didn't at&t establish a defacto monopoly on telecommunication before being broken up and the industry being regulated?

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Date: 7/4/10 15:41 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-new-machine.livejournal.com
There're arguments they still exercise such a monopoly (with VoIP being the main contender, such as it is). There was a lawsuit that got dismissed (targeted for a tightening of pleading requirements) that alleged continued conspiracies to keep third parties out of the market, and to not invade the others' markets. Never proven as it got dismissed before discovery, unfortunately.

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Date: 7/4/10 15:29 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
Restrictions, ha. Pull the other one, it plays Jingle Bells.
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Date: 7/4/10 19:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
AAGGHH FREE MARKET FREE MARKET FREE MARKET oh bullshit. The "Free Market" is nothing but an open license for businesses to use the privilege given them by having a fuckton of money to do whatever they like and fuck whoever gets in the way of their profits.
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Date: 7/4/10 21:59 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
Fucking people over to make a profit is not a good thing.

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Date: 7/4/10 19:52 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryder-p-moses.livejournal.com
Yeah 'cause the Internet and the national telecommunications network? Totally created and made what they are by the free market. Bell just up and grabbed hold of his bootstraps one day, fuckin' pulled so hard the whole thing popped out of the aether, while the Feds stood by rubbing their hands sniggering and plotting his downfall. True fact.
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Date: 8/4/10 05:24 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryder-p-moses.livejournal.com
wait which one of us is being sarcastic I lost track

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