[TriLUG] Move over Google: Wilson, NC did it a long, long time ago

[David Both via TriLUG]

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On 02/27/2015 03:35 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG wrote:
> 1) When you sign up for Internet service, there is NO, NADA, ZERO agreement.  It is accepting an ultimatum.  Period.  To pretend that there is, is absurd.
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> 2) as has already been shown, the market is an effective monopoly due to lack of real competition.  What's more is that the industry even attempted to strengthen their hold through legislating out the most visible opportunity for competition.
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> 3) corporations are legal entities granted evidence at the behest of the govt and by extension the people.  The idea that they don't owe transparency and a lot more to the people is also absurd even if it is protected by the laws.  These corporations have behaved badly and ripped off the people whom they were supposed to serve and are now receiving their just desserts.  I hope it hurts them like hell.
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> On Feb 27, 2015, at 3:22 PM, John Vaughters via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>>> When you have an imposed monopoly of one or two service providers who collude on contractual terms, they are identical to the behavior that you find so shocking in the government.
>> I couldn't disagree more.
>> 1st -  I make an agreement for a service and I know what service is traded for pay. There is nothing hidden here.2nd - I do not agree there is a monopoly. If this is such a clear monopoly, then the Gov. should attack that with monopoly laws on the books.3rd - A corporation is not a Gov. entity and owes no transparency to anyone other than what is required to be a corporation under US laws.4th - FCC is a Gov. entity and we are their employer and they owe us an explanation for their actions. This concept seems to be lost on the young.
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