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by am1988 3247 days ago
In the US if you don't like your internet provider you can shut up and keep paying because the government helped them get a localized monopoly. Google can swing regulators from "anti-trust" to "it's all good they said they would fix it". Lobbyists write legislation.

The level of corporate control in the US is disturbingly high. Ultimately they are weaker than the federal government.