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> Never before in history has a small cabal of companies welded such power over there was a monopoly on phone service in the 70s that exceeds the monopoly on c
by appleflaxen 6y ago
> Never before in history has a small cabal of companies welded such power over
there was a monopoly on phone service in the 70s that exceeds the monopoly on cloud hosting today. and it wasn't a cabal; it was a single company.
> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over
> something they said or who they associated with? Unthinkable. And yet here we are
> with the modern equivalent.
they aren't shutting off the phone service. they still have internet, and can publish anthing they want anywhere else.
what they shut off is their television show / public feed of people calling for violence. it's completely justified.
- maccard 6y ago> what they shut off is their television show / public feed of people calling for violence. it's completely justified. Right, this is more akin to Fox/CNN/MSNBC deciding they're not going to allow you a platform.
- flippinburgers 6y agoYes and what again happened to that phone company?
- kiwidrew 6y ago> there was a monopoly on phone service in the 70s that exceeds the monopoly on cloud hosting today Yes, and as part of that _regulated_ monopoly, they were required to provide "universal" service: it didn't matter how remote the customer was or how inconvenient it would be to provide them with service, telephone service had to be provided to anyone who was willing to pay the (regulated) monthly fee.