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		pdonis on March 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The internet should be a public utility The postal service in the US is a public utility: the US Post Office is required by law to deliver to any US address. The fact that there are private companies delivering something called "mail" does not change that: none of them are permitted to deliver first class mail, that is a USPS monopoly, and none of them are required to deliver to all US addresses, but the USPS is. I don't know why you would want Amazon to be a public utility.

amelius on March 28, 2020 [–]

Yes, in the US that's the case but nobody said it will never change.

Regarding Amazon, see for example https://stallman.org/amazon.html#size

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