Recent content by Objectivist

@snipeye. Also, be careful when you say the government has to step in to maintain consumer's freedom of choice. Their freedom of choice is whether or not to deal with any of the availailable companies that wish to sell a product (in any field, not just with cell phones). There is no freedom to...

Well, I believe that antitrust laws are inherantly evil and immoral. The laws are written in a way that is so vague that they are impossible to follow. A business doesn't know if they have disobeyed the all-powerful regulators demands until they come knocking on their door. This is the essence...

Instead of name calling why don't you use some intellectual thought to prove to me that it IS the government's role to decide whether 2 companies can merge, and whether prices are "high enough" already. All you people are emotionally arguing on the basis of things like "as a T-Mobile customer I...

This is an absolute abomination. The fact that 2 companies were attempting to do something they felt was in their best interest best interest, and the government come swooshing in swinging their clubs and guns and puts a stop to it is not a win for anyone. It is an assault on freedom, and any...

The government's ONLY proper role is to protect individual rights. We have no more a "right" to the internet than we do any other service or product provided by other people. If ISP's decided tomorrow that they don't want to continue staying in business for whatever reason and closed their...