They always do this. They write it in such a way that it sounds inevitable so you don't feel motivated to fight it.

The people that the ISPs are paying, of course!

You kind of answered your own question. But yeah, the job of the FCC under the Trump Regime is to help corporations / the rich grift and steal as much from American citizens as possible. This change furthers the ability of both Trump and the ruling class of oligarchs to do just that.

If the FCC members play along, they might benefit from some of the corruption personally. If not, they will be publicly bullied and/or replaced. Trump operates as if he is a mob boss.

This concerted effort to rob our people is a large part of what the DOGE firings aimed to achieve in the beginning of the regime’s 2nd term - get rid of anyone who would protest, and definitely get rid of all the watchdogs (inspectors general) whose job it was to ensure this doesn’t happen. It is no coincidence that at the same time the press is manufacturing consent for this repeal, Starlink is preparing to tack on massive amounts of fees for its users.

They're not. They're not selling this. It's a push under the rug kinda situation.

Then it should be to hard for me to pay them.

Shit man...

Let's see... They slowed down the war that they started in Iran. They released half of the Epstein files, just not the presumably 50% that directly implicate Trump. Trump fired Pam Bondi who he had appointed.

It's hard to think of anything good that they did that wasn't just toning down or backtracking of something bad that they had previously done.

To be fair, they did increase the biodiversity of the reflecting pool

That's not true. It showed us everyone's true colors.

I don't want to disagree, but how about enabled the Charlie Kirk incident?

i wonder what isps are only in red states, in the blue areas you get more than the OG 3 competitors. they likely have verizon, TWC, AT&T and xfinity mostly.

Fortunately I avoided the mistake of voting blue tho, bc Lemmy tankies told me the truth that bOtH sIdEs SaMe.

( /s )

Republicans just want to hurt people. Even if it means hurting themselves. They just need to own a liberal and shed tears.

Desperate people are easier to control

And the white ones w/o degrees will vote even harder for Republicans to "own the libs". Meanwhile, just sitting on their own balls, basically.

Europe always forgetting about the shareholders. How's the c suite going to afford their third yacht and their fourth mansion charging those prices?

$8 ?

Same here. Romania

I get 500Mbps for about 10 euro

or that they add new service charge, because they added something your subscription without consent. like how comcast constantly changes the tier of your cable services often.

They don't really need to spin, they either talk about Democrats in a negative way, glaze Trump like he's their God, or they just don't cover it at all.

This one probably falls into the "just don't talk about it" category. If Reich wing media doesn't cover a story MAGA never finds out about it

They'll blame it on Biden or Obama if they need to.

Conservatives fucking blamed 9/11 on Obama before.

Where can I sign up for Canadian Internet in my US State?

I cant tell which side this is parodying anymore.

That's just how magical it is, the text flips for everyone reading it.

That only works if the ISPs are in direct competition, which for the vast majority of the country, are not.

Most US markets are effectively duopolies or "triopolies" at most. But even then, that's really stretching it. Because while two or three ISPs cover a city or metro, the neighborhood one lives in really determines the carrier. This part of town might only get cable from Comcast. While another part of town only gets it from Cox. That's really simplifying it, as maybe a consumer also has (slower) bonded DSL in their area, plus there's also home 5G and now Starlink. Fiber (either FTTC or FTTH) has made good headway, but it's still not ubiquitous. Your house or apartment building might have fiber; the one next door doesn't.

So there's a teensy bit of competition. But not really.

Cellular service has seen some of that competition on being honest with fees, but that's because of MVNOs. But traditional non-wireless ISPs really don't have that competition.