A Perfect Example - There Is No Competition!
A perfect example that there really isn’t any competition in the market!
Selecting just these two posts (there are thousands);
AT&T threatens to disconnect subscribers who criticize the company
AT&T vows to use Terms of Service for good, not censorship
Folks, is anyone paying attention? I mean really? Thankfully, there are people who now scan through their cable and phone bills and make these discoveries otherwise “they’d” sneak them past us.
Telecoms are denying service, censoring and now claiming the right to cancel for what? Bad conduct by you and I, that’s what - in their discretion!
Their discretionary powers are more than very disturbing, seems to me they’re Communistic is the oldest sense of the Cold War!
How many times do we have to hear “whoops, we made a mistake.” Or “We swear we didn’t give the government that power or information.” Only to have it proven otherwise shortly thereafter…
But, the worst of all??? Which is why I ask the question “Is anyone paying attention?”
There is absolutely no way any of these companies could do this if they weren’t monopolies, if they didn’t hold all the power, if there was real competition!!!
If AT&T were afraid of The World’s Global and Most Elegant Telecom Co. Inc. (made up name) spiriting away their customers do you believe they would put this type of threat in print? If Joe Consumer had an opportunity to go down the street to any one of a dozen or more local, viable, really competitive Telecoms, do you really believe AT&T would write this for the world to see?
Shills like Scott Cleland can testify until they’re blue in the face about Google, meanwhile Verizon and AT&T are making decisions about our rights based on their discretion and we have no recourse! Why? Because there is no competition! Who do we go to? What companies are there that don’t have some type of restraint on them due to their association with one of these major telcoms?
Come on! Smell the coffee!!! Once again I agree with T Karr at Save The Internet when he says: “The biggest threat to free speech in America is public complacency. We must have this discussion about our democratic rights while we still can.” Our democratic quality of life is getting ripped apart, shredded, by greed and powermongers… DO SOMETHING!!!
[arstechnica has a cool discussion going, why not join in? Oh, hey, and while I’m at it, for you pundits that don’t believe Net Neutrality and The First Amendment are associated - GAFL! - take the blinders off!]
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1 opinion for A Perfect Example - There Is No Competition!
mktaylor
Oct 8, 2007 at 10:14 pm
i inherited AT&T stock from my dad who got that 25 year clock prior to early “out to pasture.”…clock’s fixin to go the way of the grimy slimy shares held sacred by the collosolla shamefully shameless
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