A.) There is nothing wrong with what they are doing B.) If you (or others, or even a majority) are unhappy with what they are doing, the answer is not for you to impose your will on them in a manner that makes it even harder for them to see competition later, but to -- instead -- move towards competition most ricky tick, so that there will be other competitors who behave in a manner you will be happy with.
I don't see these two points as being as disparate as you seem to be implying they are. D On Jul 22, 2014, at 8:38 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: > That's a very different discussion than the idea that there is nothing wrong > with what they are doing. > > David Lang > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Derek Balling wrote: > >> Easier, and better, than further entrenching ISPs by turning them into >> protected common carriers. >> >>> On Jul 22, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Adam Compton <compt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 7/22/14, 5:18 PM, Derek Balling wrote: >>>>> On Jul 22, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) >>>>> <lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >>>>> I would agree, only if the consumers had more competition to choose from. >>>>> There is a huge percentage of America whose choices are Comcast or >>>>> Verizon. >>>> And so - again - at the risk of noticing the horse is dead - the >>>> competition issue is trivially solved by the gov't, and nobody would >>>> complain but lobbyists. >>> >>> "[...] telecom firms have successfully pushed 20 states to pass laws >>> limiting the reach of community-owned utilities like EPB." [1] >>> >>> I agree that ending government-granted monopolies and opening Verizon et >>> al. up to competition would be _a_ solution, but I don't think it would be >>> anywhere near as easy to accomplish as you're making it out to be. >>> >>> - Adam Compton >>> >>> [1]: >>> http://www.salon.com/2014/07/18/comcasts_worst_nightmare_how_tennessee_could_save_americas_internet_partner/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.lopsa.org >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >>
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