Al, I agree with you about Anti-Trust Laws, and I spoke out against AT&T's attempted acquisition of T-Mobil here in CA, but if you think having just THREE cell phone companies is better than having ONE, your kidding yourself. For real competition we need dozens, and the opportunity for new start-ups to enter their market should they fail to provide cost effective services. AT&T bought back the baby-Bells and owns both the fiber-optic back-bone infrastructure and all the networking patents, they own the internet, and the US Government (i.e. YOU) work with them to spy on American citizens via the NSA.
"But wouldn't we feel a lot more comfortable about that if we knew that market forces would act to stop such an egregious abuse of our privacy?"
On the issue of privacy, you're just plain wrong. We have no privacy, we never did. "Privacy" is the term that rich people use when they want to hide their evil deeds. If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to fear.
Information is power. Privacy issues are about an imbalance of power, the government has the power to see all our information, knows our address, our phone number, how much money we make, where our family is, but we citizens don't have the same power over our government. The government has official secrets, but shouldn't, people shouldn't do things they don't want others to see.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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