Wednesday, February 28, 2018

AT&T Fails In Bid To Kill FTC Authority Over Broadband Monopolies

It can"t be overstated that the broadband industry isn"t just trying to kill net neutrality, it"s trying to gut most meaningful federal and state oversight of entrenched telecom monopolies. While Ajit Pai dismantled consumer protections at the FCC, his "Restoring Internet Freedom" order also ironically attempts to ban states from holding ISPs accountable for privacy, net neutrality, or other anti-competitive behavior. With neither adult regulatory supervision or healthy organic competition in place to keep bad actors in line, the end result will likely be even worse behavior than the kind of Comcast shitshows we"ve grow used to.

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