03-28-2013, 01:39 AM
deckeda wrote:
The problem of course is in allowing companies like Comcast to gain so much control that they can't be effectively targeted legally.
An excellent point that highlights areas for action that, were the FCC, FTC, and DOJ not already captured by the very industries they ought to be regulating, would be gaps where policy would be established and enforced.
However, we have regulatory capture aided and abetted by a political duopoly that is on one side complicit and on the other complicit whilst duplicitously preaching an anti-regulation, pro-competition stance to willfully deceive a like-minded portion of the electorate into further entrenching the duopoly's complicity.
What's to be done? I say a general boycott of the monopolists' services, as much as that can be done. I'm sure if everyone who had no choice but to view Comcast were to cancel service for 3 months at the same time, the company's quarterly revenues would take enough of a hit that then you'd have grounds to demonstrate harm in any particular market by how much they missed their profit estimates.
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