This is a great quote and I can hardly believe it's from 30 year ago: As Cablevision's Charles Dolan warns, "As an industry, it is really bad for us to have an articulated view that cable can operate successfully only...in a monopoly environment. That view is an invitation to a regulatory response that would set us up as common carriers,"[7] just like telephone and utility companies.

Side note: I bet splashing out sketchy comparisons to Orwell's 1984 was a lot more fun back when it was actually 1984. On balance it was a good piece but the whole first section can be safely skipped.