PLEASE, I didn't say this.
a whole bunch of stuff of mine as in here and quoted
the following was someone else's comments
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> It wasn't that many years ago in the United States when there was one big,
> monolithic telephone company.
>
> It was taken as gospel by many that the stability of the telephone network
> depended on there being one unified, monolithic telephone company.
I'd never say anything this transparently wrong.