Cable lobby vows "years of litigation" to avoid bans on blocking and throttling

Re:Cable lobby vows "years of litigation" to avoid bans on b... by ysofunny on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @03:47PM (#39922157)

because capitalism means they get to do whatever they want to be more efficient, i.e. extract more profit

but how and from whom do cable companies 'extract' their profit?

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Re:Cable lobby vows "years of litigation" to avoid bans on b... by prepend on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:00PM (#39923058)

Capitalism doesn’t make cable suck. There are far more profitable companies with non-hellish customer experiences.

This is just a bad philosophy and short term thinking. Cable would be more profitable if they wanted to be. Blaming their shittiness on an economic system isn’t really accurate.

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Re:Cable lobby vows "years of litigation" to avoid bans on b... by Sporktacular on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:02PM (#39923089)

The economic system should have weeded them out. It has failed.

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Re:Cable lobby vows "years of litigation" to avoid bans on b... by johndunne on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:07PM (#39923152)

The cynic in me says it was probably lobby groups that kept the favorable status quo going for the incumbents. Do people in the US have any decent choices when choosing cable operators?

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Re:Cable lobby vows "years of litigation" to avoid bans on b... by johnea on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:04PM (#39923123)

Almost all cable companies have geographic exclusivity.

Which is another failure of the economic system...

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Re:Cable lobby vows "years of litigation" to avoid bans on b... by xboxnolifes on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:49PM (#39923667)

Natural monopolies are a known failure state of capitalism. This is a failure to intervein properly.

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Re:Cable lobby vows "years of litigation" to avoid bans on b... by halJordan on Friday April 05, 2024 @08:36PM (#39948937)

Demanding perfection is a flawed argument, mainly used to shut down a conversation

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