FCC's net neutrality rules overturned by court
thehill.com
  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 days ago

    Their excuse is that telecom services aren’t actually providing telecom services, but information services.

    If that doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because you aren’t brain-damaged.

  • PaddleMaster@beehaw.org
    15·
    4 days ago

    This is crap. The internet should be a utility. Not taking in account that people can’t really function without being online (banking, school, health records, other basic services). How much internet infrastructure is funded on the tax payers dime? Do we get a refund?

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      2·
      3 days ago

      Being a utility doesn’t help. Pubes successfully got California’s electrical system privatized a decade or so ago, and it’s been an utter shit show for customers since. Texas’s is also privatized, and we see every year how awful that is.

      I am not a socialist, but there are things I think should be socialized; internet is among them. Anything that’s infrastructure.

      But in the US, being a utility doesn’t prevent it being a monopoly. It only allows it to be the worst form of monopoly, a for-profit cash cow that’s supported by tax dollars.