[TriLUG] Intel bug in the news today

[Tom Barron via TriLUG]

On 04/01/18 21:04 +0000, Brian Henning via TriLUG wrote:
>Last-mile providers are already a government-sponsored monopoly.  There is exactly one cable provider (Spectrum) and one DSL provider (Frontier) in my area.  How is this competition?
>

And where I live we have DSL only, no cable, and one provider for the 
DSL.

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>+1 Nothing Burger
>Why? Because enough competition already exists and is getting more competitive by the year. Let the markets work and they will return the best most competitive product. If the issue ever gets to a monopoly situation, we already have laws for that problem.
>As an example,
>I do not care if they throttle, because I do not have to buy their service, and they will not retain customers if they create bad business.
>Markets work, keep them free from Gov. intrusion.
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