“we’re not doing illegal, and no you can’t check.”
-People doing illegal things
you’re OK with having all your messages read by the government?
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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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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.
Make internet access a utility and be done with it.
It was until Ajit Pai removed the classification 😤
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.
It’s like a teenager telling their mom she doesn’t need to check the browser history
Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices
And that’s exactly why broadband prices should be investigated.
Yeah they should do it even harder and faster now. Now I’m horny.
Deeper, even
And while they’re at it they should get out the handcuffs, they’re definitely going to need them.
Let’s all do the “Comcast”!
Rub our nipples?
How to tell you are running a cartel, step #1:
Criminal doesn’t want to be investigated.
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
What about bathrooms, are those still safe?
If he’s a white cisgender conservative male? Probably not.
Shh, you’re gonna upset the white cisgender conservative males…
Pay no attention to the piles of money behind the curtain!
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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Yeah, same podcast made the point in their episodes about the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Project, and how it was recent history even though it sounds like some medieval horror story. These fucks haven’t changed, and the same company that profited off that brutality is still around and still making money hand over fist and never reckoned with their crimes.
I say that if corporations have the benefits of personhood, they should also have the responsibilities and liabilities of a personhood. Kill 5 people due to clear negligence? Company comes under government control (prison) for the same amount of time as a regular person would for the same crime.
Kill hundreds? The company is dissolved and the responsible people are jailed.
Oh, and companies are represented by a random public defender from that jurisdiction.
That’d get some things fixed real quick.
That would certainly be more just, but to do that you’d need to reverse what is effectively their complete regulatory capture.
To do that you’d need to create a situation where money wasn’t liquid power.
To do that you’d need to dismantle capitalism.
So at that point corporations aren’t a thing anymore.
I say we do that. Like if we’re dreaming, let’s dream big.
That sounds about correct.
They’re no better than nineteenth century railroad tycoons
It literally the same people or their descendants in most cases.
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”
Exactly the reason I have 2 coax cables running into my house. I just switch each time they pull this shit. I own all my own hardware so it’s no big deal.
The title alone is a great reason to investigate broadband prices.
🤣🤣😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣 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.
