Reply to post: About dang time!

San Francisco first US city to outlaw ISP lock-ins by landlords

Tikimon

About dang time!

Every apartment complex I ever lived in had one anointed ISP, hate it or leave it. Usually this was the most horrible of a bad lot, the ones who would most benefit from blocking the competition. This practice is similar to the contracts phone companies always locked us into, except we didn't get to choose who we were tied to. So by kissing up to the property owner, the ISP got hundreds of households locked in, forever and ever, amen.

Laws against this onerous practice can't spread fast enough.

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