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Cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination (arstechnica.com)
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Cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination::FCC will investigate ISP practices that discriminate by income level or race.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, that is a such a good idea....it will never happen. Because it's a good idea.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think there was some effort, back in like 2010, to try to get the government to go into the market like a business, and just out compete the actual cable companies. Obviously, nothing ever came of that on a national level, but there are some local governments doing it. My grandpa is the township commissioner for a little township in northern Michigan, and he's been working on getting it for his township for a while. I think they just started rolling it out recently