Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory.

  • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This analogy holds if the robbers are a criminal organization with a legal front and the cops are on their payroll.

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      1 year ago

      Well, yes, that is a pretty accurate description of regulatory capture of the FCC by telecom companies.