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kudos:4 | When did Verizon start passing laws?? »Verizon Continues Proud History Of Denial
They've been selling under-served rural markets, while passing franchise reform laws that lets them ignore wide swaths of under-served America for the foreseeable future. 1st - Unless the laws of the US have changed, Verizon has not passed any laws that I am aware of. They may have lobbied for some changes to franchise regulations in some states, but that is about it.
2nd - The changes in the franchise laws were an improvement to the current situation where every little whistle stop township could hold up progress with franchise demands bearing no relationship to actually providing and regulating TV service. Competition actually increases in those states where state franchise regulations replaced local regulations.
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Cheyenne, WY | LaimJunket I can agree with your 2nd premise
But your first is total bullsh*t. Oh no Verizon doesn't pass any law, no they just lobby, wine, and dine, contribute to war-chests, use the Courts, strong arm, and whatever else they have to do to get what they want. I come from a state, Wyoming, that has always been screwed over by Telco's . The only reason why Cheyenne has the DSL service it does is because of the telecomm infrastructure that has installed over the years because of all of the H bombs, missiles, command and control and comm lines to what is now the Air Force Space Command. Having said that Qwest screws us over in service, and services. I live 44 mile north of Ft Collins and I see what they are offered, stuff I can't get here. Don't try to feed us a line about passing laws, they get what they want one way or another.
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kudos:1 | reply to Romney2012
said by Romney2012:» Verizon Continues Proud History Of DenialThey've been selling under-served rural markets, while passing franchise reform laws that lets them ignore wide swaths of under-served America for the foreseeable future. 1st - Unless the laws of the US have changed, Verizon has not passed any laws that I am aware of. They may have lobbied for some changes to franchise regulations in some states, but that is about it. You are right, that is misleading. Is should have stated they BOUGHT laws to prevent local people from bypassing corporate greed and enacting municipal systems and to bypass local oversight.
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 You are correct big business AKA Verizon does not write laws they simply pay off lawmakers through campaign contributions and other perks so that the lawmakers will write laws in their favor. In some cases corporations write the law for the lawmaker so the lawmaker does not have to waste their time thinking. In fact some rubber stamp lawmakers, claim ignorance when questioned about a law they are proposing because they were to lazy to read the law before presenting it. Unfortunately consumers do not have deep enough pockets to lobby (pay off) lawmakers. |
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That is like saying the US wasn't fighting the Soviets in Afganistan. The whores in Washinton are mere proxies for corporate interests.
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