New streaming services give you the same convenience you had in the 90s

This has been the plan for decades.

Telecom companies existed before the internet and have made every effort their television fiefdoms would have the right to own it as well.

Then again the only bastion of defense against this has been a parade of old ass people who don't own computers and were handed a smartphone 15 years ago but only want campaign donations in exchange for not understanding the problem.

So it really wasn't much effort at all to turn the internet into TV 2.0.