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Seriously? Because they're demanding the freedom of the telcos be overridden in favor of our own personal interests.

• deleted 13y ago
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• dkuntz2 13y ago
  Seriously? Because we don't call them inalienable corporate rights, we call them inalienable human rights. Equating a corporation to a human is part of what got us in a whole host of messes.
• CamperBob2 13y ago
  Would these be the same telcos that operate as regional public utility monopolies, subsidized by your taxes and mine?
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• djur 13y ago
  The telcos make extensive use of common property like licensed portions of the RF spectrum and a great deal of land in order to do their business. The people have every right to enforce regulations on the use of their property.
• blhack 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly Read about natural monopolies.
• nightcracker 13y ago
  I strongly am in favor of freedom, but not a fully free market. And exactly for reasons like this: a fully free market destroys freedom.
  • vacri 13y ago
    The Free Market of libertarianism reknown doesn't exist and can't exist. For such a market to work, each participant needs perfect information and capacity. If you've had any involvement with business should be enough experience to understand that there's no such thing as perfect information once the product is more complex than say, an orange, and even then it'd be a stretch (grown where? what pesticides? which labour? which transport company? where are all the other places I can purchase this orange? ...)
• maaku 13y ago
  > Because they're demanding the freedom of the telcos be overridden in favor of our own personal interests. Imagine that someone was allowed to own the air, and then control / privileged what you are allowed to say (sound waves). Would your opinion be different?