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

[Jim Popovitch]

And all this rant has what to do with ALE?  I have no issues with
folks furthering their political/social/sexual/religious asperations,
as long as they do it in the appropriate venue.
-Jim P.


On 2009-02-10, 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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