[opendtv] Re: Chairman Pai blog on bridging digital divide
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 02:10:41 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
More religious dogma from Bert.
Did you watch the video embedded in the one post?
Problem is, Craig, you have always championed anti-competitive solutions, as
I've explained many times. You have always gone for walled gardens, proprietary
systems, vertical integration, non-neutral systems. So the fact that you want
the Internet to go that same way comes as no surprise.
Luckily, everyone else knows better.
Everyone, except Craig and self-serving special interests, seems to understand
that market forces don't work when monopolies are at play. The only points I
differ, with many respondents, is that like Craig, these others lose
credibility by inventing this "good guy, bad guy" narrative.
It's rather humorous that Craig creates the opposite "good guy bad guy"
definitions of almost anyone else on the planet, but the reality is, there are
no good guys or bad guys. There are only guys looking after their
self-interests. What reasonable people should do is to see what forces exist to
keep all these self-interested organizations honest.
If natural market forces exist to keep them honest, GREAT. And they sure do
exist for companies that operate over the Internet.
If market forces DO NOT exist, because the companies enjoy a monopoly or
quasi-monopoly status, then something is needed beyond ultra-right-wing
slogans. Seems pretty obvious.
Bert
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