[opendtv] Re: Chairman Pai blog on bridging digital divide
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:44:31 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
You point to a few types of utilities for which there is little
opportunity for competition, like water and sewer service. But
the reality is we survived as a nation for centuries without
forcing people to use these monopoly services.
Aggravating! You really like to waste time with these nonsensical arguments,
don't you? The reality is that wells and septic tanks are not an option in most
urban and suburban environments anymore, and for very good reasons. Plus, they
are a super hassle for homeowners. Next thing you know, you will tell us that
we don't need power utilities and a lot of regulations governing them either,
because cave men got by just fine without power. And that we can use firewood
to heat our homes, because cave men heated their caves with firewood. The point
is, people don't want to go back to prehistory, Craig. And to avoid doing so,
we need, and have THEREFORE created, new industries and new institutions.
Need I mention the breakup of AT&T and the article deregulation of
the telephone industry?
To prove what point, Craig? The breakup of AT&T created several local
monopolies, where previously one more giant monopoly existed. The multiple baby
bells in short order reconsolidated. This is also totally beside the point.
You're just rambling.
Monopolies cannot get away with whatever suits them Bert, UNLESS
they have the complicit support of the political/regulatory class.
What crap. As always, Craig gets cause and effect mixed up. If monopolies
exist, they can obviously get by with whatever they want, just as your cable
system was doing that caused you to complain (pointlessly). If politicians do
not act to prevent this, or worse, are complicit because they get paid off,
that only makes matters worse. But it doesn't change the original problem, of
lack of competition.
This FCC is behaving very much like that complicit politician, working to hand
over, to the very few special interests, exactly what they want.
Really? SO how is it that these unessential entertainment services
have become powerful monopolies, and hence now need to be regulated?
More evidence that Craig just likes to ramble on aimlessly? Why do you think,
Craig? Has their role changed? Or are they still just your frivolous extra
source for TV programs? Egad.
Then the Internet opened up the opportunity for even more choice.
But for some strange reason you believe that heavy handed FCC
regulation of the Internet under Title II will protect net neutrality.
More evidence that Craig just likes to ramble on aimlessly? Why do you think,
Craig? Or do you really believe that the only function of the Internet is to
deliver OTT TV content?
They are all walled in Bert. If not you would be able to use all
of these services WITHOUT paying for them.
More evidence that Craig just likes to ramble on aimlessly? Exactly how does
Amazon wall me in, if I can shop at sites other than Amazon? But that's not the
case with a non-neutral ISP. They can wall you in. Duh!
When Craig comes up with an endless list of specious, verbose, bass-ackwards
arguments, that's he has again managed to spiral a thread into the toilet.
END OF THREAD!
Bert
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