This is rich. Cablevision Corporation has asked to review the constitutionality of the so called “must-carry” regulations, that call for your local cable provider to carry the local channels on the system.

That’s one thing, but their rationale for why they shouldn’t be required to do this is because cable corporations aren’t actually monopolies or duopolies, but are a “wide-necked vase in which all flowers can bloom.” As a colleague of mine pointed out, I guess that’s true as long as they own all the flowers along with the vase!

To paraphrase from the founder of today’s Market-Leninist state of China, “Let a thousand channels bloom!”

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