[mythtv-users] [Mostly OT] Comcast/net neutrality ruling - NY Times Online

[jedi]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:41:52AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 08:50 +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> 
> > I read it  as something like the ones we have over here - people who 
> > think regulation is bad and it should all be left to "the market" to 
> > resolve.
> 
> I am one of those people. But in order for that to work, there has to
> actually be an open market to begin with. Most people I know who
> advocate free markets are smart enough to realize this. I just didn't
> appreciate being lumped in with the morons who don't know the difference
> between a free market and a government-mandated monopoly like Comcast,
> and having aspersions cast on everyone who advocates free markets. The
> free market cannot control Comcast because there *is* no free market.
> Therefore, the people who think that the free market *can* control
> Comcast are not "free marketeers", they are idiots.

...or insincere.

Just because someone claims to be something, it doesn't mean that they 
really are. Some people are just for big business and crowing about 
"free markets" is one way that they can do that.

They're like televangelists and presidents from Texas.

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