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[–] SARGEx117@lemmy.world 203 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

-People doing illegal things

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 136 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The cartel says the CIA shouldnt investigate cocaine prices.

[–] Unlocalhost@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Cocaine prices have made little to no change even though recessions, my friend tells me.

[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 116 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices

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

[–] TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah they should do it even harder and faster now. Now I'm horny.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's all do the "Comcast"!

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[–] Rememo@kbin.social 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make internet access a utility and be done with it.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously. Why is this taking so long!? It’s painfully obvious!

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Because the ISPs don't want to have to do what we made them do for phone lines. Even though the trillion dollars we have given them over the last 30 years should have come with that stipulation...but they took that money and bought our politicians with it.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

I $$$$ honestly $$$$ have $$$$ not $$$$ a $$$$ single $$$$ idea $$$$ why $$$$ either.

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[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] Otkaz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Good God I pay 90 a month for 1 gig fiber. What county are you in?

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

W. H. A. T.

Sorry, it's so hard to believe, you have to explain how.

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[–] AirlineF0od@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I pay 99.95 a month for 50 megs gotta love the local phone cmpny

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That's Romania. But I live in the US now.

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[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

50€ for 1000/1000 here. My employer covers it.

[–] burliman@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I pay $110 for 2000/2000 fiber. In the US.

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I pay Comcast $130 for 1000/35

Just Internet, no bundles.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you can get the same internet speed for like 10$ in Ukraine. of 4$ for symmetrical 100mbps fiber connection

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

It’s like a teenager telling their mom she doesn’t need to check the browser history

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 52 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Criminal doesn't want to be investigated.

[–] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 44 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

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

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about bathrooms, are those still safe?

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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 year ago

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

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

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

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago

Oh god the wipe transitions. I remember when the original trilogy was being remade into... I think the Gold version? I watched bts stuff and George was explaining how they'd added wipes to the scene transitions. Like, cool new CGI and all, but maybe adding wipes over the entire thing is kind of taking the piss.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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”

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[–] crypticthree@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

🤣🤣😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣 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.

[–] Joe-Blow240@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Methinks the corporation doth protest too much.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I say the same thing to the police about my drugs

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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