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I found this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/technology/internet-provi...

Says a bunch of companies received millions in fines a few years ago and it names AT&T, Charter, Comcast and some lobbying group.

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Imagine if your water pipe decided to only serve you water occasionally, and when it did threw some random bull-crap in there?

Who would vote for that system?

Imagine if your television only showed you ads and propaganda.

It works so well too. Was on a r/visible, a Verizon subsidiary and they claim unlimited but it's really 1TB or less otherwise they threaten you. The thing is there are laws in place that bar carriers from doing this and the guy pointing this out is downvoted to hell because everyone there are all corporate defenders. Blow my mind that the phone consumer market are so gullible. When Comcast was pulling this shit, people were pissed. Nowadays people are falling in line.

> defenders

I read your comment as “…corporate defrauders…” and it made just as much sense in context.

I don't have to imagine that

I assume that's what he meant.

In reality we haven't seen the worst case at all. In fact, we have companies like cloudflare arguing that they are obligated as an infrastructure provider to serve neonazi websites.

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