36 points

Unchecked corporate greed.

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That is a fucking great question coming from the people who are literally in charge of regulating these sorts of things.

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Because you corrupt morons (really, your predecessors) allowed it to be. I’m old enough to remember losing that fight.

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The predecessor are still around in the FCC. Also their replacement share the same views. This is just lip service meant to make it seem like they care

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having flashbacks to a time telcoms charged $$ per text. what a desperate move to extract every bit of $$ from the literal sharing of information

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Man that was so bullshit, text messages piggyback on the wireless handshake so they cost telecoms literally zero money.

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Or when CallerID was an additional $8/month. It’s fucking DNS for telephone numbers. Can you imagine if ISP’s had charged extra for DNS and everyone decided to just memorize IP addresses instead?

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Charging for both a connection speed and a limit is ridiculous. The latter is obviously a cash grab, but paired with different tiers of speed just screams “regulate me”

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Fuck regulation.

Take it all back. They used eminent domain to gift them monopolies on the lines to begin with. They abused it. Take it back away.

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It makes no sense to me… My connection speed already has a limit just as a function of that speed over time.

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