How about passing internet privacy laws? Or stopping the enshittification and commercialization of the internet? Or passing laws to protect youth from social media companies? Or curbing the reach of advertising companies? How about passing laws to keep our data from being sold to advertisers?
All cool, but not what the FCC can do.
To pass laws, look to Congress. Remember to vote for the candidates you think will help accomplish those sorts of things.
Congress is broken. Unfortunately a bunch of geriatric old fucks who care about corporate money are in charge. But yeah, the govt needs to do its fucking job.
You could run, but you would probably want them to raise their salary first. DC is expensive in of itself, let alone dual living residence.
I don’t want the gov. Touching the Internet. You’re asking for a bad time if you do. Commercializing the Internet is from people using it as such. Build your own site and host it. The enshittification is coming not just from the companies that created/own these sites, it’s the people who use them as well.
The government “not touching the internet” is how we got here when NN rules were rolled back by that shit eating, giant Reese’s cup drinking, FCC chairman that we had under Trump.
Not sure if we can do anything about enshittification though. That is shareholders demanding the line go up and I don’t think we can change people’s desire for greed.
We absolutely can. Break up every company at 999 mil and we‘re golden. It’s the lack of competition that makes enshittification possible.
So who is supposed to regulate corporations? I agree that the current government is not knowledgeable enough and is beholden to corporations. The problem we have is there is no agency that really governs and enforces any kind of rules.
The ‘build your own’ mentality is what got us to where we are. Just look at what Twitter has become under Musk. He is doing what he wants with a platform that was operating in a very different manner before he took it over and decided to make changes. It’s not a real answer to let everyone do what they want.
Btw, that’s how google and facebook get away with all the evil shit they do.
We need a governing body to make better rules for privacy amongst many other things. I agree that the government or even the FCC may not be the right fit. However, we need some kind of of oversight and regulation. Industry will never selflessly give up rights or power if it means they make less money. They only do what the laws tell them they can get away with.
You know what we need? The government sans Judiciary branch to be run by unpaid people. The President? Yeah, he also has to work a normal 9 to 5. Congress? Same deal. Judiciary branch is paid because they have to deal with the absolutely shitty job of interpreting legalese and ruling on major things. And Law school is expensive as fuck.
Maybe if Congress had to work with the layperson and deal with their struggles we would have significantly less shitty laws passed that benefit the people at the top, and hurt everyone else. Because Congress wouldn’t be any different than a regular Joe.
Blows my mind how many conservatives think net neutrality is a bad thing just because the TV told them it’s bad.
None of them can even tell me what the hell net neutrality even is.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. All it means is that ISPs can’t discriminate based on the site you’re visiting, which is pretty important for individual freedom. Am I really free if all if my customers get throttled visiting my online store unless I pay ISPs to treat my site the same as my larger competitors? That’s like saying it’s fair for large companies to pay the police to make traffic on other roads slower so getting to my store is more convenient.
This really shouldn’t be a partisan issue. Net Neutrality helps reduce the monopolization of the Internet, and it does that without making any top down rules, it just says you can’t make anti consumer rules.
at the very least constant whip-lash from changes might see ISPs not being able to sign long-term contracts and businesses not being able to plan around availability of things like “fast lanes”, which might make them uncommon even if net neutrality keeps getting repealed
See y’all when it gets rolled back if/when the Republicans take office again.