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How about passing internet privacy laws? Or stopping the enshittification and commercialization of the internet? Or passing laws to protect youth from social media companies? Or curbing the reach of advertising companies? How about passing laws to keep our data from being sold to advertisers?
All cool, but not what the FCC can do.
To pass laws, look to Congress. Remember to vote for the candidates you think will help accomplish those sorts of things.
Congress is broken. Unfortunately a bunch of geriatric old fucks who care about corporate money are in charge. But yeah, the govt needs to do its fucking job.
You say this like restoring net neutrality prevents these things from happening. They're not mutually exclusive.
Blows my mind how many conservatives think net neutrality is a bad thing just because the TV told them it's bad.
None of them can even tell me what the hell net neutrality even is.
They hear the basic description and call it internet communism.
Most I've seen haven't even gotten that far. They hear "neutrality", think it has something to do with the Fairness Doctrine, and panic that they might have to step outside the echo chamber.
at the very least constant whip-lash from changes might see ISPs not being able to sign long-term contracts and businesses not being able to plan around availability of things like “fast lanes”, which might make them uncommon even if net neutrality keeps getting repealed
Cool it only took them 4 years