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

• 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is this different than another time?

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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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