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Lifer
- Sep 26, 2000
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Back at the Comcast offices:
"We are losing more and more money to satellite providers, what should we do?"
"We could lower bandwidth caps on our broadband customers. That would force them to pay for higher priced plans with higher caps."
"Sounds good, do it. Anybody else?"
"How about charging from the other end?"
"Tell me more..."
"Sure. We don't only charge the customer, we charge the provider of content."
"Hmmm. Like charging the Sun for itself for providing solar power. I love it!"
"Our customers love us so much."
"No kidding, we're awesome!"
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"But what if the our customers get mad at us and complain to Congress? After all we are still technically a franchise with legal obligations?"
"HeHe. We can take the money our customers pay us and use it to bribe, err, contribute to candidates who will let us rape, err, support the free market for monopolies"
"Great. We can give as much as we want thanks to the Supreme Court. So if we need more money to give to Congress we can just charge our customers more! It's a legitimate business expense."
btw Spidey in 5,4,3,2,1.......