Similarly, you can starve to death to protest food prices, or die of dehydration to protest water prices, etc.

Sometimes it isn't as easy as you're making it out to be.

You target the shareholders (indirectly, by making the corporations actually liable for what they do) because they're the ones electing the board who are selecting the CEO and thus driving the company culture and direction. Failing that, the officers of the corporation should be liable for its malfeasance.

In this case, the passengers who were killed in the crashes were the most aggrieved. Protecting the pensions (who fail to require adequate safeguards from a "safe" investment to actually be safe) shouldn't even be on the table when they have the ability to protect themselves. Even more fun is when the pension is managed by a corporate (or other non-person) entity, because then even when they fail to do the right thing (get millions and drive the pension into the ground), the same logic would apply, and clearly they couldn't be made liable?!

Anything other than penalizing shareholders, and the corporation gets to survive forever with all the protections of "personhood", but never with any of the downsides, which ends up being pretty destabilizing to the rest of society.

The carriers have successfully engendered legislation in a number of states that prevent municipalities/towns/etc. from deploying their own.
They deserve to be screwed with given what they've been doing to ensure there is no competition.

Mandating competition could work.
Around where I've lived, there has been exactly one reasonable broadband option in a number of different places.
The big corps pass laws to ensure this remains the case.

So.. yea. No.

So, the corps get to keep our tax money, and then get to turn around and steal space on the ground and air in exchange for.. what exactly?

Seems more like the corps are stealing from the public than the other way around, and I have no problem sticking them with the bill or having them go belly up and punishing the investors for allowing the corp to attempt to steal from the public.

Or... not, because when you RTFA the 'compression' is not apparently bit/byte compression, and refers to the way the chip is put together

This is a likely a security nightmare.

Howso?

Easy. Some piece of memory has a secret in it.
An attacker wants to find out that secret.
So, what they do is put potential parts of something secret into some memory. If it partially matches, then it will partially compress.
The *size* of the amount of memory consumed thus tells you (the attacker) whether you partially guessed right or not.
Very quickly, this can end up discovering something pretty big pretty fast.

Notably, this could work from a browser running javascript to discover parts of the memory not in the browser.

This is very likely to be a security nightmare waiting to happen.

In the past, providers were liable both for doing moderation /and/ for not doing moderation. We'd not have user-generated-anything (including forums like this one) if that was still (or newly again) the case.

ISPs, OTOH, should certainly be common carriers, since they get to prioritize one thing over another, gather your data and sell it to whomever...

There are a number of games that are ported (or not) to platforms like Android.
Similarly cloud gaming, which Google may have exited for now, but may certainly enter again in the future. .. so, Google certainly has a reason to be in there.

NVidia sells cards because of games (and now AI, but certainly games are still a big deal).
If something disrupts the game market substantively, as they're worried this deal could do, then that will impact their ability to sell things...

Even if that was true (it isn't: we didn't know that), there was still the problem of kids being highly effective disease vectors for everyone else that people like you always seem to "forget" to state.

Uh, and food is optional. You can totally choose to not eat it.. ... riiight.

Sadly, this won't work, since the American versions of the HW, due to FCC regulations, will be different (and locked), and will use that as an excuse to not accept any EU versions of the HW.

A bar.
Or just about anyplace where you can have a tab or account with payment already on file?

Not like this is new, or even was new 20 years ago...

What classes of people do you believe one should be able to exclude, and which should they not be able to exclude?

Sure would be nice if we prosecuted such for fraud/perjury.