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Originally Posted by bobman0330
Comcast used access to its services as leverage. Now there's a dispute between Comcast and Netflix about how data usage is charged. Netflix is using access to its services as leverage. The question is why should these kinds of business disputes be regulated by the government so that Netflix always wins?
I think you're confusing mobile providers for Comcast now, but that aside, who (besides the caricatures of liberals that you hold in your head) thinks the government should regulate the current dispute so that Netflix wins? You literally linked to a Slate article titled "Netflix Has Been Degrading Video Quality on AT&T/Verizon
and It’s Really Messed Up" but came in here with blah blah meow chow regulate Comcast more, and now this?
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Originally Posted by bobman0330
Second, all these start-ups are running on AWS, and you have to assume that Amazon would crush Comcast if Comcast started ****ing with their connections, right?
I guess this works if you accept as a necessity that every company on the planet inexorably link themselves with some company, somewhere, that's big enough to have clout with all the other big companies that could potentially **** them. As long as everyone's paying their dues to some Very Large Company somewhere, everything will be okay. Big guys gotta get their cut.