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Jim Kirk
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join:2005-12-09
49985

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Jim Kirk

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Broadband reclassification

The FCC claimed that a consumer in an area with fewer than two providers may benefit from competition because the provider in this area "will tend to treat customers that do not have a competitive choice as if they do." That's because competitive pressures elsewhere "often have spillover effects across a given corporation."

That's quite a load of horseshit.
Jim Kirk

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Jim Kirk

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Cable companies use hidden fees to raise prices 24% a month

Verizon Wireless does the same thing.

Fed Universal Service Charge $3.01
Regulatory Charge $0.85
Administrative Charge $8.90
OH Tax Recovery Surcharge $0.38
OH Reg Fee $0.24

The most egregious is the Administrative Charge. Definition for that one is:

Administrative Charge, which helps defray certain expenses we incur, including: charges we, or our agents, pay local telephone companies for delivering calls from our customers to their customers; fees and assessments on our network facilities and services; property taxes; and the costs we incur responding to regulatory obligations.

In other words, the cost of doing business.

Anonba620
@74.130.101.x

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Anonba620

Anon

5G radiation

Can we please stop having stupid people dictate policy? The people the most scared of this are the least educated on the topic. If you don't even know the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation you really need to shut up about 5G "radiation". Please enlighten me about what is so magical about 5G that make it deadly?
Kearnstd
Space Elf
Premium Member
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ

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Kearnstd

Premium Member

Warren Lobbying Tax

Hey I love the idea, Slamming corporations hard for corruption of our democratic system is absolutely something that needs to happen. Same for those damn SuperPACs red or blue team.

But the hard facts are this, Corporations are not stupid they would setup dozens of shell companies that would all pay lobbyists under 500k and still achieve the same goal. But on legal documents it would not be Comcast Corporation or AT&T, It would be dozens of other firms projecting similar interests. SuperPACs would do the same thing, Setup a bunch of tiny PACs and attack locally vs nationally.

So instead of Comcast just having an office in DC pumping millions into both political parties they would have 50 offices around the country with stupid names, "New Jersey Center for Communications Equality" or some dumb shit that pumps money into this state's local and national reps but from a state level.
Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO

5 recommendations

Skippy25

Member

Comments

"data scientist Jeff Kao who estimated that 99.7% of the “organic” comments--not prewritten or duplicate comments, favored retaining the Obama-era rules against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization, rules that the FCC under Ajit Pai successfully overturned, a decision a federal court upheld two days before Buzzfeed published its investigative piece."

There there is pretty telling in just how much of a puppet Pai really is.
Skippy25

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Skippy25

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DNS and Caching

Caching is a something they do to save themselves money. They certainly don't do it as an added benefit to their consumers. That is just a spillover unintended result.

DNS can be had by anyone from any DNS provider and has nothing to do with the ISP itself. I NEVER use the ISP provided DNS servers and never will.

The judge clearly does not understand how the internet works.