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Now when people get mad about one AT&T own property, they can consume the other AT&T owned property to feel agreed with.

This is like turbotax selling tax software while lobbying against simpler tax setups. Or Facebook boasting about being a townhall while optimizing for being a barbaric colosseum.

Business as usual for unfettered capitalism!

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I don’t know how you can look at the telecom market and make the determination that it’s “unfettered capitalism”. AT&T has an extraordinary amount of special market privileges that shield them from competitive forces. Almost all utilities are quasi-government. That they are allowed to own private infrastructure on public land, sometimes at no cost, is something you or I could not do. Am I unaware of an important counterpoint where Soviet telecoms were high functioning and free of perverse incentives?

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