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It's not as though there's any shortage of well-publicized abuses spanning years of this issue. Past abuses and flatly anticompetitive behavior are the reason this is even a thing to begin with.

If there was some sort of benefit to the consumer in any of this, I'd have more patience. But this benefits nobody but a few key companies who are already rolling in money to a degree that is straight up pornographic, and at the expense of everyone else. The consumers matter. The people matter. The vibrancy and open nature of a freely competitive internet and the innovation it generates are what matters. Comcast, ATT, and Verizon can take their anticompetitive horseshit shrouded in mindless ideology, form it into a bent, knobby shaft, and f**k themselves with it.

Why should we wait, Galt, for them to inevitably tighten the screws any farther? As they have demonstrated a propensity for doing? By doing that it only makes it that much harder to reverse the damage. Don't give these f**k animals even an inch. To hell with shielding them from have to compete. They've already shown their colors.

Like EA...they'll push, and chip away, until finally intervention is required.

the FCC is an inappropriate place to regulate it. yes the FTC is merely reactive, but it is reactive to actual problems that exist rather than figments of overactive imaginations of those of us here in fantasyland's magnum opus

Yes, what is your point? That's exactly what I said. I'm not sure why you think the FTC should deal with this, it's always been an issue for the FCC and in any case if you are saying it should be dealt with by the competition regulator then that would be DOJ for telecoms.

The point of the FCC has nothing to do with consumer protection. They are off the reservation here. The FCC is all about auctioning airwaves off and shit like that

Unlike the FTC which exists for consumer protection