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Brendan Carr wants to preserve data caps
Please say sike....please...
Hopium: Streaming services get mad they have to compete for subscriber's bandwidth and thus being stayed subscribed to.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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These guys think streaming companies suck. They want to prop up their 95 year old friends at Comcast.
Nope, fees just get passed to the customer.
What does spacex have to do with FCC?
Carr might also try to steer money to Elon Musk's Starlink system. Carr was a vocal opponent of the FCC decision to deny SpaceX's application for $886 million in government funding and claimed that "President Biden gave federal agencies a greenlight" to punish Musk after he bought Twitter.
Something about supporting ISPs because uh free market isn't so good?
Starlink is a SpaceX subsidiary.
Let's give this guy with $250 billion dollars a billion dollars worth of tax payer money, because fuck you.
Looks like I'll be cancelling my already stupidly expensive Internet service... I hate these fucking people...
Back to the stone age with all of their fucked up "policies."