The fact that they are *able* to adopt a monopoly position and blackmail is itself a cons. of tech issues.
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Ignoring something as technically meaningful as hard/soft/non real-time simply because political problems arise = bad tech.
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The Internet has dealt quite well without hard-scheduled QoS for 40 years, despite the continued squawking of telco engineers.
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And again, I am totally with principle of combating monopoly. Just not with arbitrary tech line in the sand.
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But if Cablevision refuses to accept real competition, then they're gonna get tied up so they don't kill the thing we care about.
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My heuristic: which path opens up max tech optionality towards constant tech improvement (not specific utopian vision).
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...and you're doing this in a moment where we see that decentralization is our only hope against ubiquitous state surveillance.
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Heh, so I'll say good night with this piece of mine on that that should make you pop a vein then. ribbonfarm.com/2014/01/10/con
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So (just skimmed), this is actually really great, because this is a pretty clear statement of the essential nature of the conflict.
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(Not by making cables not run in Westphalian dirt, obviously. Much better to just undo the Westphalian state in total.)

