[ale] OT: Craig Newmark of Craig's List on Net Neutrality

[Jim Popovitch]

Geoffrey wrote:
> It's like Joe's puts up an ad in the local paper 
> and Pizza Hut pays the newspaper to NOT print it.

That already happens more than you may notice or care.  Billboards are a 
good example.  Do you really think that CocaCola needs a $1M billboard 
in Time Square?  No, but they will pay $1M every year to keep Pepsi from 
having that space.  Fox News did it to CNN at that CNN Center, signed a 
mulit-year lease on a billboard right outside CNN, then lambasted CNN on 
it.  Home Depot now buys up neighboring property when selecting a new 
site, specifically to keep Lowes from opening a store right next door. 
"Squeezing out Joe" has been a business tactic for as long as mankind 
has been doing business.

-Jim P.