[ale] [OT] Net Monopolies (was AT&T DSL vs RoadRunner cable broadband)

[aaron]

On 2009, Feb, 09, , at 11:49 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:19, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>  
> wrote:
>> It doesn't matter what the rules are.   Awful Telephone &  
>> Telegraph (as
>> well as most other ILECs) ignored them and the FCC under Dubya let  
>> them
>> get away with it.  As an apparent quid pro quo they went ahead and  
>> did
>> illegal call data gathering for the NSA.  A spineless Democratic
>> congress later passed a law preventing prosecution.
>
> Oh geeze.   Can't you keep this crap on just digg and slashdot?

Corruption of governmental oversight and destruction of our commonwealth
through corporate influence peddling and monopoly political graft is as
much a part of the failures of internet distribution and technology
access in this country as anything in the purely technical domain, so
commentary on the corporatist controlled political systems has merit,
especially in light of the manufactured global economic crisis.
The comments being criticized above may be overly generalized, but they
have some truth at their core and some remote bearing on the thread.
(At the least, they are a lot less of crap and a lot more on topic than
discussions of radiator fluids).

In any case, we certainly don't need any censorship to sustain  
desperate,
knee jerk defenses for the death throes of the disastrous and globally
failed mythology of "free market", "invisible hand" political  
economics or
the totalitarian, elitist, crisis driven, war machine, police state  
torture
regimes these economic policies have invariably fostered and  
entrenched for
decades. The only invisible hand in the radical right wing Friedman  
fascism
experiment is the one that's been choking democracy and human rights to
death in every single nation that it has infected in the past 60 years.

peace
aaron