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[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

On 03/07/2015 08:50 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> On Mar 7, 2015 8:31 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
> <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/07/2015 08:08 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > The Republican definition of freedom generally refers only to owners and never
>> > to users.
>> >
>>
>> If there is plenty of competition - perhaps 10 competitors, I don't have an
>> issue with the network owner being allowed to seek niche spaces in the market.
>> Some people may want to pay to have proactive blocking? I dunno.
>>
>> When there are fewer competitors, or an effective monopoly (like we have with
>> broadband service in the USA), the customers may need protections - mainly after
>> the company has proven to be anti-customer in the past on numerous occasions.
>> Competition is clearly not working in those cases.
> 
> +1
> 
> There's no competition for broadband now.
> 
> I have a problem with an access provider also being in the content creation
> business as well.

There are some places with an effective monopoly for broadband and the clients
are happy. This is usually when a smaller, local, company or coop does the
connections.

Perhaps it is time to break up Comcast and AT&T broadband services into 50
smaller companies?