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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 30 2018, @10:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the out-out-damned-Charter dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) today voted to revoke its approval of Charter Communications' 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable (TWC). The PSC said it is ordering Charter to sell the former TWC system that it purchased in New York, and it's "bring[ing] an enforcement action in State Supreme Court to seek additional penalties for Charter's past failures and ongoing noncompliance."

Charter has repeatedly failed to meet deadlines for broadband expansions that were required in exchange for merger approval, state officials said. The PSC has steadily increased the pressure on Charter with fines and threats, but Charter never agreed to changes demanded by state officials.

As a result of today's vote, "Charter is ordered to file within 60 days a plan with the Commission to ensure an orderly transition to a successor provider(s)," the PSC's announcement said. "During the transition process, Charter must continue to comply with all local franchises it holds in New York State and all obligations under the Public Service Law and the Commission regulations. Charter must ensure no interruption in service is experienced by customers, and, in the event that Charter does not do so, the Commission will take further steps, including seeking injunctive relief in Supreme Court in order to protect New York consumers."

[...] Charter has denied failing to meet obligations to expand broadband service. But as we've previously written, state officials say that Charter is trying to count locations that it was already required to serve as part of franchise agreements toward its merger commitments.

[...] Charter's statement did not say whether it will appeal the PSC decision, or whether it will comply with the PSC's order to sell the former Time Warner Cable system in New York. We asked Charter those questions today and will update this story if we get a response.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:07PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:07PM (#714780)

    That's what makes the atop-built socialism cooperative. Without the underlying capitalism, socialism quickly deteriorates into imposition, which is no good at adapting to changing conditions.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 30 2018, @04:19PM (9 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 30 2018, @04:19PM (#714790) Journal

    Without the underlying capitalism, socialism quickly deteriorates into imposition

    Da fuck you need capitalism, You can build socialism on top of (a mild) capitalism, but it is not a prerequisite.
    You can build socialism on top of a gift economy (see open-source for an example of gift economy) or commons-based peer production [wikipedia.org]

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:20PM (8 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:20PM (#714792)

      Capitalism is the fundamental philosophy of a free society.
      Capitalism is a prerequisite for a free society.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 30 2018, @04:38PM (7 children)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 30 2018, @04:38PM (#714804) Journal

        Those are postulates.
        I can come with similar: "Gift economy is a prerequisite of a free society" - they lead to an equally coherent set of social organisation rules.

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:45PM (6 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:45PM (#714809)

          You cannot make a gift of something unless you own it.

          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 30 2018, @04:57PM (5 children)

            by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 30 2018, @04:57PM (#714811) Journal

            Really?

            What if nobody owns anything and the gift is actually the service of manufacturing or obtaining something from nobody ownership and gifting the right to use of that something to the person that needs it?

            --
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @05:09PM (4 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @05:09PM (#714815)

              Either those resources are allocated by compliance, or they are allocated by cooperation.

              Cooperation requires voluntary exchange, and voluntary exchange requires ownership by each party.

              A perfectly free society emerges from solely cooperation. I hope that compliance is merely an artifact of primitive, naive logistics, and that humanity will discover ways to stamp it out.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @05:16PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @05:16PM (#714823)

                Failing hard again huh?

              • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 30 2018, @05:27PM (2 children)

                by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 30 2018, @05:27PM (#714827) Journal

                You are too bound by your own conceptualization to be able to think something else.
                Very likely, an useless waste of time in such a discussion on both sides

                Either those resources are allocated by compliance, or they are allocated by cooperation.

                For other alternatives, stewardship and meritocracy, do those term ring any bell to you?
                They are quite commonly used in open source.

                --
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
                • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @05:58PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @05:58PM (#714848)

                  It is like VIM dude needs to have the same debate with each and every user, and apparently when the usual suspects don't step up yet another user decides to take up the banner of critical thinking. It is a waste of time, all the same points have been pointed out many times and VIM dude just repeats his shaky world view and adds "get it yet?" to the end.

                  Don't waste your time.

                • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @06:24PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @06:24PM (#714862)

                  FOSS is capitalism; your contribution to FOSS is an allocation of your capital.