After data clean-up, I was left with 26 unique filings, dated between September 2002 and October 2018. None of them (indeed, none of the larger collection of 91 results) were written by the FCC. For more details, see Analysis 2020-02-22 = Frankenstein at the FCC.docx.
In most cases, “Frankenstein” connoted something assembled from disparate parts (often, though not always, monstrous), often as the result of company mergers. Here are a few examples (the full list is in the Word doc mentioned above):
- The Greenlining Institute: “could result in customers having to obtain a Frankenstein monster of multiple services”
- Ryan Blethen: “The most recent Frankenstein melding was Comcast and NBC Universal”
- Commnet Wireless, quoting USA Today: “Worried that a merged AT&T and BellSouth are like some Ma Bell Frankenstein reassembled and about to terrorize all of communications?”
In some cases, the primary connotation seems to be mostly monstrosity; some examples:
- Lee Elliott: “Removing the protections would turn it in to a capitalistic unrecognizable Frankenstein”
- Michael E Sullivan: “getting down on your knees in front of these already-out-of-control ISP Frankenstein Monsters”
- Paul Freirich: “you took eleven meters away from us and created the CB Frankenstein which you have apparently given up on trying to administer or police”
- Lynn Beiber: “Just because we have the knowledge and ability to create some new technology does not mean that it is necessary and wise. Dr. Frankenstein comes to my mind.”
- Marnia Robinson: “a corrupt system leaves the hands of its maker, somewhat like Frankenstein”
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