Steven Sinofsky
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15 recordings
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2d ago
Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That they know the companies are saying, do this thing because it's good for everybody.
And they always have good reasons.
They always say, oh, the products will be better or the price will be lower or there'll be much clearer lines of service and the marketplace will be more fair.
Like, for example...
AT&T, which is a fascinating example because they were actually a government-created monopoly.
Like literally the government created the phone company and they owned it essentially.
But then when the government was saying, you know, we think we need to control your prices and do stuff, AT&T went to them and they said, okay, here's the deal.
We can guarantee that every single address in America will have a telephone and it's called universal access.
And that's why you can only let us do this.
And so basically they made this deal that the AT&T was going to be the national phone company, even though it was a private company.
if they promised to deliver phones everywhere.
And it got really tricky because with that came, like, a bunch of rules about using the telephone lines that today led to surveillance, you know, and all of this stuff.
So what happened was basically AT&T, a private company, became really the United States phone company.
And it was just a branch of the government.
And this has happened time and again.
J.P.
Morgan became the National Bank of America.
You know, Standard Oil became the National Oil Company of America.
Even at some crazy extreme, Warner Brothers became the movie theater of America.
Yeah, and every – it turns out radio, television, and telephone all sort of followed the same path where they were – there were private companies that were basically beholden to the federal government.
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