Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

25 years later, this has largely not worked out (which is a story for its own day) but a congressman named Ed Markey got a provision put into the law mandating that cable TV providers make it possible to decode their signals with third-party set-top boxes. — PolitiTweet.org

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What am I talking about? Well pull up a chair folks... ... it all goes back to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 back before millennials had their first avocado toast. The main idea here was to shift from a price regulation paradigm to a competitive one in telecom. — PolitiTweet.org

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This ended up being instantiated with a technology called Cable CARD. The cable company had to give you the option of a CARD you could plug into your own box, rather than just a box. And that created the market opportunity for TiVo. — PolitiTweet.org

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