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And Comcast has the seventh largest lobbying budget of any individual company or organization in the United States. ISPs should be regulated like public utilit
by techntoke 7y ago
And Comcast has the seventh largest lobbying budget of any individual company or organization in the United States.
ISPs should be regulated like public utilities.
- seganddr 7y agoMakes you wonder about the origin of the OP.
- wongarsu 7y agothe_mitsuhiko is from Austria (according to his keybase linked in his profile). But it shouldn't matter, if there's no consumer demand then lobbying is irrelevant.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't post insinuations of astroturfing to HN unless you have some sort of objective evidence to point to. This is one of the most common and most poisonous internet tropes around, so we have an explicit rule against it in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. More explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if interested. Edit: looks like you've done it at least twice before. That's too much. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.