Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices

SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Rin@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you’re OK with having all your messages read by the government?

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Quite a jump from “prices should be fair, monopoly power bad” to “LITERALLY 1984” but ok convince yourself you’re making a coherent argument 🤷‍♂️

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    • Rin@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I take issue specifically with “- People doing illegal things” because that argument has been used over and over to rape our privacy to death. I don’t have a problem “- Monopoly doing illegal things”.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We already know they do that. If they can’t directly for any legal reason that they don’t want to admit violating, they’ll just have one of our allies do it for them via their foreign intelligence sevices. Snowden gave us the proof of that a decade ago.

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  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neither private companies nor the government should be collecting data about citizens without probable cause and due process.

    That could all be codified into the regulations that classify internet as a public infrastructure service.

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  • Gregorech@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is this different than another time?

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You do realize they have a law that requires the phone companies to run a phone line no matter where you build in the USA right? Requiring the ISPs to uphold stipulations like this is a good thing.

    Also, NSA…

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