Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination::FCC will investigate ISP practices that discriminate by income level or race.
“(this decision) is not compatible with the fundamental concept of free market capitalism” Sounds to me like they’re admitting that free market capitalism is bad for the people.
tbh, capitalism isn’t intended to be good for the people. It’s working as designed.
Free market capitalism only works when supported by regulatory efforts to establish an equitable marketplace that serves societal intersts
I’d say “duck Ted Cruz” but that’s something nobody should ever do.
Ted Cruz could go fuck himself, but the risk of him asexually reproducing is too great. One Cruz is bad enough.
One Cruz is bad enough.
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Brendan Carr complained that the order empowers the FCC “to regulate each and every ISP’s network infrastructure deployment, network reliability, network upgrades, network maintenance, customer premise equipment, installation, speeds, capacity, latency, data caps, throttling, pricing, promotional rates, late fees, opportunity for equipment rental, installation time, contract renewal terms, service termination fees,” and more.
Awesome!
Of course, given this statement, the one thing we can be sure of about these new rules is that they do not do this.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Under these rules, the FCC can protect consumers by directly addressing companies’ policies and practices if they differentially impact consumers’ access to broadband Internet access service or are intended to do so, and by applying these protections to ensure communities see equitable broadband deployment, network upgrades, and maintenance,” an FCC announcement today said.
ISPs, including Comcast, Charter, AT&T, and Verizon, recently held a flurry of meetings with FCC officials and commissioners in which they argued that the rules are too broad and exceed the authority granted by Congress.
ISPs urged the commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory.
But while the final order is not yet public, it apparently will include the pricing rules and other requirements that ISPs and Republicans oppose.
Carr previously referred to the rules as “President Biden’s plan to give the administrative state effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the US,” claiming it “is motivated by an ideology of government control that is not compatible with the fundamental precepts of free market capitalism.”
In 2021, Congress required the Federal Communications Commission to issue rules “preventing digital discrimination of access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin” within two years.
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Ted Cruz can go fuck himself
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 year ago
if they are going to fight regulation this bad, maybe we just need to declare it a utility and strip the profit motive from these profits-over-humanity asssssssholes
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe? It is a damn utility. Just another key national service trapped behind the claws of capitalist scum
Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can we declare Healthcare a utility?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Happened mostly everywhere else in the world. Problem is, they now try to errode that as well.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Man, that is a such a good idea…it will never happen. Because it’s a good idea.
Infynis@midwest.social 1 year ago
I think there was some effort, back in like 2010, to try to get the government to go into the market like a business, and just out compete the actual cable companies. Obviously, nothing ever came of that on a national level, but there are some local governments doing it. My grandpa is the township commissioner for a little township in northern Michigan, and he’s been working on getting it for his township for a while. I think they just started rolling it out recently
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Been trying for twenty years. The Internet is still pretty fly by night for most people. Flash in the pan, nobody will ever use it for anything important.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Draw up the proposition and I’ll sign it