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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: pressure those nasty Bay Area cable companies!
- Message-ID: <ubrtf2c@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 04:23:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com> <13763@optilink.COM>
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- Reply-To: cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio)
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- walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
- |From article <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com>, by markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden):
- |> 2) Are you sick *enough* that you're interested in taking political
- |> action to force the offending companies to mend their ways?
-
- |No, I'm sick of people suggesting governmental intrusion
- |everytime a business does something that they do not like.
-
- If cable companies were normal businesses, I'd agree with you.
- But in every place I've gotten cable service, the cable provider
- was a monopoly. I couldn't punish one provider for bad service
- by going to another one. A political solution is possibly the
- only one in this case.
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- cj@eno.esd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "Any respect I once had for Phil [Ngai], Phil [Ronzone], and Clayton
- [Cramer] has gone right down the toilet. Libertarianism to them is an
- excuse to flaunt their own bigotry." --Ray Shea in *.politics
-