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[mike at trausch.us (Michael Trausch)]

Maybe the better answer is to get rid of the notion of the franchise monopoly grant?

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> On Mar 7, 2015, at 9:19 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
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