[GRLUG] new Comcast mail blocking?

[Ben DeMott]

"To a *dark place this* line of thought will take us"
-Yoda

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> This highly cynical opinion was brought to you by Ed's Pizza. Call Ed's
> Pizza for all your Pizza needs.
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