[jeremyt]

Private firms with monopoly power never last, unless that monopoly power is augmented by the government.

The Comcast "monopoly" is in the process of falling apart, on one side from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu and on the other side from Google fiber, 5G wireless, mesh networking, and perhaps even the Elon musk LEO satellite Internet plan.

[masklinn]

> Private firms with monopoly power never last, unless that monopoly power is augmented by the government.

Ma Bell was a monopoly long before the government tried to reign it in.

[starnixgod]

The government birthed the Ma Bell monopoly with the Willis Graham Act.

[masklinn]

You're completely off your rocker.

The Willis Graham Act nullified the Kingsbury Commitment by which the government had tried to stop the unfettered expansion of Ma Bell, since it hadn't actually worked the government shifted to trying to regulate Ma Bell itself through the ICC (and the FCC a few years later).

[st3v3r]

"The Comcast "monopoly" is in the process of falling apart, on one side from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu"

And what happens to that threat when Comcast "accidentally" blocks them for an extended period of time?

"and on the other side from Google fiber, 5G wireless, mesh networking, and perhaps even the Elon musk LEO satellite Internet plan."

Which are taking their sweet ass time to find their way to consumers.

[jeremyt]

Which are taking their sweet ass time to find their way to consumers.

...because of government red tape.

[anon987]

Oh, so your suggestion is to just wait it out and good things will come?