FCC votes to ban termination fees for cable and satellite services::FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel cast the deciding vote to ban cable and satellite companies from issuing early termination fees.

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Can it extend to ISPs too? Please. And automakers, and any company?

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Which influential politician had to pay a fee and got salty? I’ll only believe it wasn’t that if they make it retroactive from 1980 onward.

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So I assume the fascist knobs will initiate a law suit to block this.

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It’d be nice if they did more.

Same with the FTC.

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This is great but also decades late.

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That’s how it goes with a government of one party who only wants bad things and one that wants some good things but extremely slowly so it doesn’t upset their owner donors too much.

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