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by squidbeak 193 days ago
Nice soundbite, but no, the purpose of (for instance) the Royal Mail isn't to funnel postmasters to jail.
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phendrenad2 193 days ago
You're missing the point. Is it better to call a thing by what it does, or what it (giving the benefit of the doubt here) claims to do?
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jimnotgym 191 days ago
Most of what it does is oodles of boring regulation of things like radio spectrums . So yes, it is a telecommunication regulator.
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phendrenad2 191 days ago
That brings up another question: Is it better to call things by what they primarily do, or what they do that's relevant to the discussion?

If I put sandbags in front of my house to stop a flood, I don't call it a "beach".

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