You know, they rejected the idea that we could regulate the internet like broadcast because broadcast is scarce and it's owned by the people

And the internet isn't scarce and it's it's massive. Okay. Yeah, but we were also anticipating

Constant competition on the internet and that the users would be able to like go into their browsers and decide what kind of content

They we're gonna see in a way that's not available to you with broadcast television or didn't used to be but like that's not where we're at

That's not where we ended up what we anticipated to be the case with the internet is that

Competition in the market would answer some of these

Problems for us and it didn't

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