"Government abandons attempt to electrify lighting, says it's unfair to flammable technologies"

Sounds like Elron got involved and started whining

"We are eliminating the automotive safety standards because they are unfair to the dangerous cars"

actual clown logic

Major telecommunication companies collected billions of dollars through state rate increases and tax breaks since the 1990s under the promise of building high-speed fiber-optic networks, but largely failed to deliver the fully realized infrastructure.

So we pay, nothing happened, and now out of fairness, deal with it?

Brilliant!

so much for a government of the people, by the people, and for the people

Technologies have more protection against discrimination than people?

"Unfair" to telecoms who essentially stole billions from the American taxpayers and didn't build out what was promised

FCC too corrupt to function

Slower technologies like Starlink. Yup.

"Government clousures toilet factories, says it's unfair to diaper companies"

That's the fucking point!

So that's why vaccinations are dialed back, right? It's unfair to diseases?

jfc, you really do get the government you deserve, lol /s

DEI tech.

There is still ISDN in the US and it's still there to uphold artificial scarcity and price fixing. Broadband in the US is basically neutered to ensure that the ISPs can buy cheaper equipment and maintain high pricing.

It's also why they wanted to remove network neutrality, so they also could gouge small data centres and make backroom deals with big tech giants.

I know you may hate the word "data centre", but if the small ones can't compete, say goodbye to any form of competition.

They will literally make arguments for affirmative action and reparations as long as the beneficiary is a rich corporation instead of a human in need.

It's no longer the land of opportunity, it's the land of mediocrity.

So we now go back to dialup?

Those poor cable companies with their outdated tech.

Turtles are great and all, but dammit I want my pipes fast.

Ah yes. In Germany we call this "Technologieoffenheit" and do not consider internet speeds, but car's.

So they're in favor of net neutrality?!

Thanks Elon.

Do roads next.

Xfinity must have got to them.

Today’s abolitionists aren’t nearly as cool.

As soon as I hear "FCC" I ignore it as it's nothing more than the old "money/power/control" triumvirate that currently exists within and amongst the trump regime. The people still have the real power. Look at how ABC now has some spine after the people bit hard into their collective subscription coin-gathering process.

Did they get paid by a POTS modem maker? Is someone trying to resurrect US Robotics?

My dad got grumpy when I told him I used an app to do my laundry instead of a sack of quarters. Then he got real grumpy when I explained it was better in every. single. way.

This is that, in policy form. (EDIT: This is the important part, not how I do my laundry)

Hot take:

SHOCKING!!!!111 Worst person you know made a good point

The modern web fucking sucks. Imagine there's no gigabit in the country where most sites are [made|tested|dictated]. Lots of things can be made to make sites suck harder even then, it can't keep going forever this way. It will hit some sort of wall eventually.

(offtopic but I love how "politics at lemmy dot world" isn't world politics)