Ma Bell should have been broken up. For kind of the same reasons. They had the power to make it illegal for other companies to make phones, or sell them. They made it illegal for consumers to buy non-AT&T phones. Made it illegal for consumers to mess with the phone wiring in their homes or wired the house up themselves. They were a comme…
Ma Bell should have been broken up. For kind of the same reasons. They had the power to make it illegal for other companies to make phones, or sell them. They made it illegal for consumers to buy non-AT&T phones. Made it illegal for consumers to mess with the phone wiring in their homes or wired the house up themselves. They were a commercial company acting as a de facto government agency.
Sort of like big tech is doing today. So your argument is sound.
Ma Bell should have been broken up. For kind of the same reasons. They had the power to make it illegal for other companies to make phones, or sell them. They made it illegal for consumers to buy non-AT&T phones. Made it illegal for consumers to mess with the phone wiring in their homes or wired the house up themselves. They were a commercial company acting as a de facto government agency.
Sort of like big tech is doing today. So your argument is sound.