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Re:The Silicon Oligarchy by throw0101a on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:43AM (#23573071)
Twitter is a private company, which uses private servers and network switches, that communicates with ISPs and their private equipment, to send the information we're talking about.

Radio and TV use public resources (EM waves), to which they have been granted a government license, to transmit information, so the government can ask them to do certain things at times.

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Re:The Silicon Oligarchy by AnimalMuppet on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:14PM (#23575888)
And the phone company? Aren't they a private company that uses private wires?
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Re:The Silicon Oligarchy by throw0101a on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:25PM (#23589222)
Most phone companies (and cables) were granted local monopolies that allowed them to build out infrastructure and amortized the cost over decades. (Actually, in the US, there was only a phone company for a long time: AT&T.)

These were regulated monopolies.

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Re:The Silicon Oligarchy by aspenmayer on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:13PM (#23595458)
Which came first, the monopoly or the regulatory capture?
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