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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2026 00:23:00 JST Bread up, Bro
   Indians think that Americans won't kill major companies once they've gone off the deep end ( because they never would ) - but we broke up Ma Bell.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2026 00:32:00 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @jb @BadOptniks sure, but the point is we care a lot about anti-competitive behavior and are willing to accept a decision that is a huge amount of work - if it claims to solve that.
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     But it should have (badoptniks@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2026 00:32:01 JST But it should have

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     @sickburnbro Ma Bell lives though - they're only separate on paper. The baby bells have all consolidated and either own or lease lines from the remaining few. The control is still there only thing really missing is the landline long distance charges.
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     jb (jb@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2026 00:32:01 JST jb

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     The irony here is that we broke up Ma Bell because a bribed Judge Green appointed himself as the arbiter of national telecommunications policy
     MCI, Sprint, et al got a lot of benefit from those “lobbying fees”