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Obligatory "Fuck Ajit Pai"
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2024
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seriously, Fuck Ajit Pai and his smug giant mug having ass.
You mean the same Ashit Pai who also mismanaged and blew the $9 billion rural digital opportunity fund that was supposed to help underserved areas?
That Ashit Pai?
The same shit pie who illegally used copyrighted content on his advertisements for a regulation to make copyright laws more stricterer?
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Obligatory "A shit pie"
You mean Paid Agit? Pronounced "Piece of shit!
I fucking hate that dude but I imagine he could literally not care less what us pleebs think given that he's presently a partner in a private equity firm.
Nothing is changing until actions have actual consequences.
They do, however, allow data caps.
These new rules are not the same as the old ones and there's definitely a handful of things that the big companies wanted that they indeed got.
I fucking hate data caps - no reason they should exist in this day and age.
No reason they should exist in any day and age.
Companies do not pay per packet. Paying more for more bandwidth or lower latency kind of makes sense because theoretically they may be prioritizing your traffic when the network is under too much load. But sending 16 petabytes costs exactly the same as 1kb in a month, assuming your connection is fast enough to handle 16 petabytes in a month.
True companies do not pay per packet but they do pay for the bandwidth. The more users that use more bandwidth consistently means the ISP needs to invest more money on throughput/links. If you have 100 users and they use 1 mbps on average you can get away with a 100mpbs link. If you have 5 users using 50mpbs on average now you need a gig link. So technically it's not free but yeah bandwidth caps suck big time. My suggestion would be to pick a place to live near a city with a municipal broadband option.
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I just want the removal of data caps. my Plex server is a hungry bitch
the data cap should be your rated speed, anything other than that is an illegally advertised speed IMO.
Get a business line, if you plan on staying at your current residence for longer than 3 years. Usually you can get it for a few dollars more than a residential line, and it'll not have a data cap, plus they're going to have a 99.99% SLA for uptime...and you're not going to be getting some script reader if you have issues.
If you have a business line you’re still 100% getting a script reader. They just come without a foreign accent.
Unfortunately mostly true. I worked for Charter Business, and was told I was "being too helpful". They only want people who read off the script. I moved over to the CCST group before they killed that off. I'm so happy to be away from there, that place was soul sucking.
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I had comcast business class for many years at my old house. When I downsized to my condo, I'm at the mercy of the HOA. They have comcast communities and I can't get business class. Its not terrible but I had to pay $20/mo to upgrade to 1000mb down just to get decent upload speeds. I wish we had a local company USI, that sells fiber internet for very reasonable prices and no data caps. My son's building has it. I moved my plex server to my friend's house who is on USI as well just to keep my bandwidth consumption down.
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I already pay over $100 per month, and a business plan would be around $350 per month. Fuck Comcast.
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Bro fr
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Woo! At least until the next Republican Party is ready for an easy paycheck
This is perhaps some of the best news I've read and heard about for a while.
It was scary close, though. It could've gone either way.
Go ahead, prepare your fucking lawsuit, lobbyists. We collectively should be suing you, for all of the times you lied your ass off about spreading broadband to areas you PROMISED you'd bring service to!
Why are there only five people voting on important FCC regulations
Why did it take so long to get this implemented during Biden's term? Why are we only seeing this just before the next election. I ask as an outsider to the states.
Biden's original pick got jammed up in the Senate and finally withdrew their name from consideration. This wasn't resolved until last September.
https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-7-2023/fcc-deadlock-vote-senate/
Since September, Brendan Carr has been doing his best to stall and resist progress.
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Who are those 2 people?
The Republicans
What are their names?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission
Brendan Carr Nathan Simington
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Dems have only had control of the FCC for a few months. It’s nice to see the regulators actually regulating, and not caving to corporate lobbyists.
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So who are the two corrupt corporate dogs that voted against?
They are - surprise, surprise - the only two Republicans...
- Brendan Carr - 2017 Trump appointee
- Nathan Simington - 2020 Trump appointee
It probably wont be too long until the greedy bastards try to roll back this, wait a few years. Access to information really needs to be a basic right that cannot be toggled on and off depending on who is sitting on the fcc.
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