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Re:Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Mi... by smt88 on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:45AM (#12127444)
It doesn't make sense as an analogy to this situation. Public utilities are usually public (at least in the US) because they need to be monopolies. You can't have 10 companies running competing power lines throughout a city, so you have one. Because you only have one, it gets heavily regulated to ensure fairness. The same is true of broadcast frequencies.
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Re:Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Mi... by DrFunke on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @04:49AM (#12127648)
Public utilities more commonly exist as oligopolies–not dissimilar to the social media market, in which the number of (major, national) firms can be counted on one hand.
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Re:Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Mi... by croon on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:12AM (#12128132)
The difference is that where you live you can't choose another utility provider, so they are in a way localized monopolies.

On the internet you can choose whatever service you like.

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