On Jul 22, 2014, at 5:00 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: >> Arguably, any customer who expects the "big evil megacorp telco" (or >> frankly -- ANY company with any business sense) to make an >> infrastructure investment whose main purpose is to directly help their >> competition from the land-grabbing of their business is either naive >> or stupid. > > And here we see the problem > > The Internet is not "the competition" for the ISP division, it's the service > they are selling to their users.
Here, let me correct that for you. The Internet WAS NOT "the competition" for the ISPs, but now that the ISPs and the content-delivery companies are the same, it *IS* the competition. > It's only when you start looking at other businesses that the $bigmedia-corp > is in that there is any competition. > > Abusing a monopoly position in one area to affect your offerings in another > area is exactly what is supposed to trigger anti-trust actions. So -- again -- END THE MONOPOLY. THE GOVERNMENT CREATES AND MAINTAINS THE MONOPOLY. You know how the monopoly goes away? The government says "guess what, no more monopoly". This isn't Microsoft who ran everyone else out of business. This is a problem created by the government saying "In this market... .in the Telco space .... WE CHOOSE VERIZON AS THE WINNER.... and ... in the cable broadband space,... WE CHOOSE TIME-WARNER!" and everyone else is statutorily locked out of the market. You can't treat a company as "abusive monopolies" when they didn't create the monopoly in the first place. That's like me choosing to crown you as King and then hating you because you're royalty and I hate royalty. D
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