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

[Charles Shapiro]

Oh, tell us how you *really* feel, Aaron (heh)

-- CHS

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:08 PM, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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