[GRLUG] new Comcast mail blocking?

[Tim Schmidt]

> I agree it's stupid, but it's not the same thing as draconian new laws.
> Censorship is what *governments* do, not businesses.  If I own a radio
> station and I don't want to play any songs about drunken brawls in bars,
> that ain't censorship.  It's my business and I choose which products to
> offer and in what manner to offer them.  If the government tells me I
> cannot play songs about drunken brawls in bars, that is censorship and
> completely unacceptable.  As much as I dislike what Comcast is doing,
> it's their business.  I could always get DSL or U-Verse.

This logic fails when the business you are talking about is a
government-sanctioned monopoly / duopoly.

--tim