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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by qudat on Thursday November 19, 2015 @11:49AM (#10595794)
> Comcast's flagrant disregard for customer satisfaction, or even their basic human dignity, is a striking testament to the failure of regulators to ensure adequate competition in this space.

I'd argue that government regulations have done nothing in this space but reinforce coercive monopolies. I think you're taking the wrong approach, we need to deregulate this space and allow real competition to thrive.

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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by superuser2 on Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:43PM (#10596631)
No one's getting the capital to climb on to every telephone pole, dig up every street, etc. Deregulation just leaves Comcast to do whatever it wants.

I'd love to see massive consoldiation of the reserved-for-government portion of the EM spectrum so we could reasonably do this wirelessly.

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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by nostrebored on Monday November 23, 2015 @06:06AM (#10613922)
Except for Comcast, at&t, and time warner, who have been getting massive subsidies to improve infrastructure to far beyond what it is today. I think the case could be made that this prohibits new players from entering.
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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by JamesBarney on Thursday November 19, 2015 @03:07PM (#10597204)
I'd be interested in examples where deregulated utilities have worked out well.
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