There would be no need to contemplate reclassifying ISPs if they weren't run by sociopathic scumbags.<p>I'm quite libertarian in general, but "natural monopolies" need government regulation. Or we get abuses, big and small:<p>1) never ending price hikes far exceeding cost or inflation<p>2) extortionate demands to "double dip" revenues, e.g. how Comcast is charging Netflix to deliver packets that you as Comcast's customer asked for<p>3) Verizon stripping STARTTLS flag from email<p>And that's just a start. I don't know how big a message HN allows, but I'm sure we could all exceed that by enumerating our complaints.<p>There's a reason why Lily Tomlin could say, many decades ago:<p><pre><code> We don't care, we don't have to ...
We're the phone company
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There's a reason why Comcast is one of the most reviled companies in America.