[hfsktr]

Except the second guy promised he wouldn't sell you his medicine because he only sells to the people in a different town.

Many places have 1 decent internet provider with no opportunity to change providers. Some places have an option if you downgrade significantly enough.

[caconym_]

Exactly; the whole point is that there is not a free market here. Like I said, ISPs are a cartel.

It's funny, since these corporate goblins and their government lackeys spout bullshit about free market and competition and innovation and blah blah blah whenever someone asks them to justify their blatantly anti-consumer maneuvering (or something tangentially related).