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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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🪓🪓🪓Just one small problem, Ben! Switch providers to who? Fucking Aquaman?!?

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shocking

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“we’re not doing illegal, and no you can’t check.”

-People doing illegal things

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

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How is this different than another time?

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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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Neither private companies nor the government should be collecting data from/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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I take issue only with “- People doing illegal things” because that argument has been used over and over to rape our privacy to death. Think “If you’ve done nothing wrong you’ve got nothing to hide” mindset.

I don’t have a problem with “- Monopoly doing illegal things”. Monopoly is not a person.

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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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“We promise not to eat any more faces,” said a spokeswolf for the Wolves Eating Faces Corporation.

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The title alone is a great reason to investigate broadband prices.

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