I'd rather have my hair on fire than my head in the sand, when it comes to Corporate Power

[hunter]

29. I boycott most every big corporate thing I can, at some cost to my convenience, but not much.

I quit comcast years ago. I don't even watch broadcast television.

I don't buy new cars or computers, I usually stick with generic products. No Microsoft, no Apple software. The giant corporations require "consumers." I try not to be a consumer.

My internet is DSL from a local provider.

Absolutely, positively, internet providers ought to be common carriers, and not content providers able to fast track their own content or content they "package" for others. The cable television business model is obsolete, companies like comcast or time warner ought to be split up into separate, smaller corporations -- with the service providers into one bin, the content providers into the other.

The U.S.A. also ought to be working on universal free internet and phone services for everyone, even people in rural areas. Higher speed "HD" television or major content providers like Netflix and existing "cable stations" like HBO or CNN would pay common carrier internet providers for the higher capacity their services require.