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FCC Restores Its Responsibility to Oversee Corporate Control of Internet (fair.org)
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[–] cyberDNA@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s great! Hopefully they look into the millions that was given to ISPs for fiber infrastructure.

[–] CyanFen@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Billions

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Over 400 billion and growing.

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can only here the Flintstones chewables jingle..... While Reading that.

10 million strong and growing.......

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$400,000,000,000 strong and growing just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop pronouncing all the zeros.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Four hundred billion strong and growing...

Eh, it's better but still not as catchy. Guess we'll have to wait until it reaches 4 trillion.

[–] whatthecaptcha@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Insane it took this long. Internet needs to be treated like a utility and it should have been years ago.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That would be awesome! Then we could get public control internet providers and cheaper internet.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Hopefully they get back to work

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 9 points 1 year ago

Now make it illegal for them to sell your data (as it used to be)

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Who's the skunk, Ajit Pai?

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Yeeeaaahhh boiiii!

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Bout damn time

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

[corpo screeching intensifies]