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   Alice McFlurry :bc: (alice@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 03:14:47 JST Alice McFlurry :bc:

   I worked for a cable company in the early 2000s and I hated that you had to pay for a bundle of 300+ nonsense channels just to get the ten channels you actually wanted to watch so I always wanted an a la carte option to buy only the desired channels, but what I did NOT ask for was needing to subscribe to ten different subscription services ranging from $5 to $30 a month in order to get those same ten channels.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 06:40:05 JST Sick Sun

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     @Alice Part of the reason that happens is that channels like HBO won't service your cable region unless you subsidize the cost of HBO over your entire cable subscriber count even if they don't pay for HBO HBO. It's incredibly scummy.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 10:43:54 JST feld

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     @sun @Alice I remember when the reality tv show craze was cranking because of the actor strike and economy and shit and they wanted to pass some law about the a-la-carte cable channels but it ultimately went nowhere after lobbying and crying that it would kill a ton of channels and shows
     
     But I was like, good. Die. All of them. Why am I being tricked into subsidizing garbage? How is that a free market? We're being scammed and allowing them to fund things that either warp us or brainwash us