nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
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1 edit | FCC doesn't want good data
the FCC doesn't want good data; good data would show that their deregulatory policies are NOT resulting in competition, but rather the opposite (in most cases).
as long as they stay blissfully ignorant, they can pretend with a clear conscience that they are steering the right course. Unfortunately, the FCC is actually steering broadband towards the deadly rocks and is about to sink competition for a long, long time.
As for the cost associated with collecting good data, the FCC didn't say they didn't have the money, they said it would be costly - they don't want to spend more money. |
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Karl Bode
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| Look at the billions spent on the E-Rate program. Yet they have NO effective system in place to confirm that the money gets spent correctly. Thus, ample fraud and waste.
Same problem in Iraq, frankly.
I'm not so sure the problem is a lack of funds as much as it is cronyism, incompetence, and a desire to give donors political back-rubs at the cost of a comeptitive, rubust, and consumer friendly market... |
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | reply to nasadude
ya,,,,,,,,,,a big conspiracy.....sarcasm |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
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said by nasadude  :the FCC doesn't want good data; good data would show that their deregulatory policies are NOT resulting in competition, but rather the opposite (in most cases). In particular, if they were to report that widespread broadband deployment is not progressing, then the 1996 Telecommunications Act would require them to "take immediate action". And that's the last thing the free-market-is-always-right ideologues on the Commission want to do.
So instead they make sure to use data that says everything is hunky-dory.  |
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Karl Bode
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| Exactly.
The provision that requires "immediate action" is why you'll never see this data collection methodology improved.
deregulatory visioned think tank folks who want absolutely no oversight of corporations officially run the world. The idiocy of that is people with that viewpoint probably make up .2% of the population. |
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq | The problem is, that 2% of the population controls 80% of the wealth. Thus, 2% = majority. |
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Ignite
Premium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK
clubs: | reply to Karl Bode
So this'll be another example of the fine democracy the US wants to export |
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PsychoSy
join:2001-01-15
Monroe, MI
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No, the problem is 98% of the US population that are wage-slaves refuse to throw off their shackles. Without labor, that 2% majority is nothing more than a lame duck from the same gene pool as the one currently inhabiting the White House. Wanna break their monotony? Bust the Corportocracy by leaving the workforce in droves. |
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