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pyre on Jan 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: We are in the AOL days of social networking

  > * 100+ years after the invention of the Telephone
  > we have Skype, which is controlled by a single company.

Bad example. See Ma Ball ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System ).

rythie on Jan 7, 2011 [–]

Good point, I was just thinking about global monopolies. BT of course did a similar thing in the U.K.

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