By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/04/2026Then there's the cable giants, Comcast and Charter, who divide up the country into exclusive territories like the Pope dividing up the "New World." 18/ 2140
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/04/2026These companies generally enjoy regional monopolies, which means they're less interested in making *profits* (money you get by mobilizing capital) than they are from extracting *rent* (money you get from sweating assets). 19/ 1121
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/04/2026In Frontier's 2020 bankruptcy, we got to look at its internal bookkeeping system, and learned that the company treated 1m customers who had no alternative carriers as special assets because it could charge them more for worse service and poor maintenance: pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/u... 20/pluralistic.netPluralistic: How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face (15 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1172
