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"we're not doing illegal, and no you can't check."

-People doing illegal things

How to tell you are running a cartel, step #1:

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices

And that's exactly why broadband prices should be investigated.

Make internet access a utility and be done with it.

In my native country gigabit fiber internet is less than $9/mo. Broadband prices in the US are absolutely ridiculous.

My three year old often says "Dad don't look!" When he does that, I know for a fact he's doing something he shouldn't be doing.

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

Good thing broadband providers have such a stellar track record of nothing but honorable and consumer-benefiting behavior. I see no reason that we can't just trust that they have our best interests at heart.

If any business tells the government that it should not look to closely into it's practices, then you know that there is something that needs to be brought to the light and corrected.

Criminal doesn't want to be investigated.

Yup. Totally not a suspicious thing to say...

I agree, the FCC shouldn't waste time investigating broadband prices. Just nationalize them. And the rest of infrastructure.

Serial killers say the FBI should stay out of their dark mysterious shed

Pay no attention to the piles of money behind the curtain!

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

According to Marx, the capitalist will always dismiss all other concerns than their own gain, and will lie and murder for their ill-gotten gains.

The 21st century teems of examples

This week's Behind the Bastards (about the capture of Christianity by capitalism) tells about the exact same thing in the 1930s and 1940s (parallel with the rise of fascism). The same give us all the money push was happening tgen as now, only now the campaign is bigger.

Fuck these guys. They're no better than nineteenth century railroad tycoons

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I’ve been a big fan of my internet provider for not playing these games, until this year. Them: “ you owe more every month”, me: “you’re raising prices?”, them: “no, prices remain the same and you can continue on your existing plan, but you need to pay more”

Don’t try that Jedi shit on me it doesn’t work.

"Trust me, the cheese is fine"- Mouse assigned to guard the cheese

shocking

🤣🤣😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣 Not biased at all. I have a $20 price lock on spectrum ATM, but as soon as that ends I'm going to say goodbye and get 5G because I'm not paying $50 for fixed internet they have a monopoly in the area I've moved to.

Methinks the corporation doth protest too much.

I say the same thing to the police about my drugs

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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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