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[–] ThePieAssassin ago 

Why would this be limited to Comcast? It is pretty much like this in every single market, Comcast or not.

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[–] theoldguy ago 

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[–] pitenius 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Oh, look an article by Wired, which is owned by Conde Nast, which is owned by Advance Publications, which owns Bright House Networks and 31% of the Discovery Channel.

Let's try a new headline: Don't Blame Us. Blame Yourselves.

Thanks, corporate massa!

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[–] G4 ago 

Yeah, this won't do a thing.

Even if they did "break off into smaller companies", do you really think they won't just pick their own areas to control and become local monopolies? It makes sense to do this, even if you're a competing ISP. When you control an entire area's Internet connection, they are your bitch. You own them and their money.

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[–] dabork 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It's worked before and it turned out just fine. Look into the anti trust suit involving BellSouth. They had the phone market by the nuts but eventually people got fed up and they had to break apart which opened the door wide for competition.

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[–] entropyosaurus ago 

still only 2 signatures...wtf

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[–] KnobJockey 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

I'm sorry lads...it's too late. Comcast will consume all.

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[–] MenstruatingMuffin 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If I was an american citizen, I would definitely sign this. Good luck guys.

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[–] luckyguy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I tried to look up the actual isp market share in the US but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get those numbers. A lot of pay wall services claim to have the numbers. It's 2015. Stats should be free.

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[–] Donbuster ago 

Try quandl. They have a lot of things for free, and, unlike most of the other paywall sites, on the ones that aren't free, they are reliable. A lot of companies like that I feel are actually just making up numbers that you then pay for.

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[–] dabork 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Anyone who has no confidence in this needs to do some research into BellSouth. They used to be absolutely enormous (think comcast on steroids and HGH), but eventually they were forced to break into smaller corporations and it quickly balanced the market.

Then again, that was also over 20 years ago and we've lost a lot of corporate accountability since then.

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