1: Radio emerges. Some stations broadcast on the same
wavelength.
2: Create the FCC to keep the airwaves "clean."
3: FCC creates broadcast monopolies within each local
market, hurting consumers and benefiting established broadcasters.
4: FCC institutes sweeping censorship laws retarding the
growth of art and prevents wholesale any political discourse.
5: Television emerges to challenge radio.
6: FCC licenses, monopolizes, and censors television. For
decades, only three major networks exist.
7: Cable companies emerge to challenge existing broadcast
monopolies, offering a much wider variety of programing direct to consumers.
8: The government grants cable companies a total monopoly in
each local market, hurting consumers and benefiting established cable
providers.
9: The internet emerges, challenging existing media
monopolies and offering an untold amount of variety and information
10: Some ISPs (many of which are cable companies) throttle high-bandwidth
traffic and content that competes with their own.
11: Defying convention and 100 years of history, the FCC
steps in and creates net neutrality rules, saving the day and making the
internet a better place for everyone, with no added expense or consequence.
Netflix streams flawlessly.
Everybody likes surprises. Too bad we never get any.
Prometheus weeps.
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