[GRLUG] new Comcast mail blocking?

[Collin Kidder]

Tim Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> The actual point I was trying to make, however, is that businesses
>> making business decisions (the merit of those decisions notwithstanding)
>> is not in the same category as government censorship or government civil
>> rights abuses.  I was not trying to argue whether Comcast is or should
>> or shouldn't be a government-sponsored monopoly.  Because it is a
>> privately-held (even if publically-traded) business, it can make
>> whatever decisions it wants to make.  That's not draconian.
>>     
>
> It _is_ when the government doesn't allow competition.  A private
> business can be every bit as much an arm of the government as a local
> / state / federal agency.
>
>   
I'd say that this is my opinion as well. The government has given 
telephone and cable companies access to public poles and is very VERY 
resistant to allowing anyone else to run more cabling. In many cases 
they've even subsidized the running of the lines. Now we're stuck with 
our government sanctioned monopolies. And those companies are nearly as 
evil and self serving as the government itself. So we're screwed but we 
have some hope that the corrupt government might accidentally do 
something good for us for a change and force the carriers to not screw us.

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