• Bappity
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    141 year ago

    internet providers investigate themselves, find no issues

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    71 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    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.

    FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel last month released her draft plan to comply with the congressional mandate and scheduled a November 15 commission vote on adopting final rules.

    Carr described Rosenworcel’s proposal as “President Biden’s plan to give the administrative state effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the US.”

    In a meeting with Rosenworcel’s staff, cable company executives “stated that the Draft Order would impose overbroad liability standards that impede further broadband investment and are legally vulnerable by adopting a disparate impact rather than a disparate treatment liability approach,” according to an ex parte filing submitted yesterday by cable lobby group NCTA-The Internet & Television Association.

    The cable companies said the FCC "should define digital discrimination as disparate treatment and should limit the standard to policies and practices involving the deployment of broadband network facilities.

    “Commission evaluation of price is unnecessary in the competitive wireless marketplace and may deter offering discounts and enticements to switch providers that consumers enjoy today.”


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    • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      111 year ago

      “Why does that room smell like rotting corpses?”

      “No clue, let’s promise to be friends forever by agreeing to never go into or ask about that room ever again!”

    • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      Good thing Comcast tries to raise my price every time I move. Eventually they assume people will get tired of it and quit trying. Guess what, I got tired of calling them every year about it.

    • @Godnroc@lemmy.world
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      151 year ago

      As unintuitive as it may seem, the price charged to customers has little to do with the costs of providing the service.

    • @EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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      181 year ago

      Unlikely since the FTC keeps letting them merge.

      And it’s not just tech. Pretty much everything you buy is from a brand that’s owned by one of a handful of companies.

      • @yabai@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        I mean that’s not really true. The new FTC chair literally got the position by writing a paper on why Amazon should be broken up, and has raised numerous cases to stop recent M&A activity. One Meta/FB acquisition of a VR company, the Microsoft Blizzard/Activision buyout, among others. They’ve been shut down a lot by the courts.