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a Republican with strong conservative views
Translation from cowardly media speak to accurate English: a Fascist.
shifting the agency’s focus from consumer protections to reducing ISP regulations and targeting Big Tech.
Translation: giving it the Louis DeJoy treatment and extorting the big tech companies NOT currently fellating Trump until they start doing so.
Bye, bye net neutrality.
and seeks to make tech companies contribute to the FCC’s Universal Service Fund, typically funded by telecoms.
Has Elon been notified? Because that fight will be a small bit of amusement during this dire time.
Nah, they'll be a special exemption for "the world's town square" that lets him weasel out of it.
Or for military contractors.
"Run"? I think the headline dropped an "i" somewhere.
It's weird when you agree with some of a persons conclusions, but not the way they reached them.
I'm very conflicted. The 230 stuff really needs to be revisited. But net neutrality should be left alone.
Not a chance he means anything other than persecuting social media companies for limiting "free speech" and preventing propaganda and/or misinformation from being spread on them.
That could be.
That's not what I was thinking.
Thinking again, that seems quite likely.
I thought we don't have net neutrality, evident by the existence of data caps. Did I get that wrong?
Neutrality is about not treating some forms of data different than others.
Data caps are still neutral. They don't care what kind of data you use, only how much.
That's not to say they aren't a problem. Just a different one.