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Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say

Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees

Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say::Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say.

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Why do Republicans love enshittification so much?
- Because they get paid to endorse it.
  
  Not the voters though.
  That's the part that's wild.
  Many Republicans have cable, and probably even complained in the past about being ripped off with something related to their cable (no one I know loves to complain about losing money more than the Republicans I know).
  And yet they vote for people that actively try to prevent that pain from going away.
  It's like they are all masochists voting in as extreme sadists as possible so their representatives will hurt them more.
  "Ohhh Daddy, tie up the FCC and spank me with more monopolistic cable fees."
- Because they're animated shit monsters. Shouldn't nea surprise really
Another example of a thing I figured 10+ years ago.
Take a headline, strip it of political references. Just the facts in question. Ask yourself, "Will this initiative hurt people?" Doesn't matter if you feel those people deserve to be hurt. Merely ask, "Will people be hurt?"
And now you know who's voting for it! I played this game with myself for years. Never got it wrong.
- The cruelty is the point
- The problem with this is that with most initiatives, there are winners and losers. Someone is hurt, but someone else (possibly many people) is helped. Even a Robin Hood-like approach hurts the rich, however small and insignificantly.
  Can you refine that rule?
- It cuts both ways though.
  In theory one could argue that eliminating ETFs would hurt the company owners and investors, who technically are people.
  So it does kind of matter which people are being hurt and if they deserve it or not.
  
  Extremely bad take, lol.
  If the company isn't financially sound without charging customers to no longer be customers, the business isn't viable.
  What an asinine attempt to justify predatory, anti-consumer behaviour from corporations.
  
  Hurt 20 millionaires/billionaires, or 100,000,000 working class people. I'm willing to bet that as a percentage of income, the investors will still lose less than the average customers are currently losing.
Cable providers are among the worst fucking crooks in the entire country.
Just tried to take as much money from you as possible while providing ass tier service.
Freedom is slavery!
Republicans.
Being allowed to cancel subscriptions is SOCIALISM apparently!
I wish they’ve finally just nationalize the entire infrastructure and then sell access to the ISPs like they did with British Telecom in the UK. Cable companies are scum and they shouldn’t be getting any further support or federal funding after the shit they’ve pulled.
I didn’t need a new phone line when I wanted to change long distance plans 40 years ago. Why is Internet service any different? Mandate a line/conduit to each house and be done with it. See how they like it when they actually have to compete.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Federal Communications Commission has taken a step toward prohibiting early termination fees charged by cable and satellite TV providers.
Cable lobby group NCTA-The Internet & Television Association opposes the plan and said it will submit comments to support "consumer choice and competitive parity."
Carr pointed out that traditional MVPDs (Multichannel Video Programming Distributors) "are bleeding market share to new, unregulated competitors," namely online streaming services.
Carr was referring to recent 3–2 votes on net neutrality regulations and rules that prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services.
Simington argued that consumers will end up paying more because contracts with early termination fees have discounted monthly rates.
He asked whether the FCC believes that cable and satellite providers "will, out of their gracious love of consumers, voluntarily fully retain today's long-term contractual discounts while merely doing without ETF revenue."
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Republican Party: We hate you, fuck you.
Republican voters: I want those guys!
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