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She put out her broadband plan last week. The lack of competition in your area of the U.S. must have prevented you from loading this webpage: https://www.wired.
by thwythwy 7y ago
She put out her broadband plan last week. The lack of competition in your area of the U.S. must have prevented you from loading this webpage: https://www.wired.com/story/elizabeth-warren-unveils-plan-expand-broadband-access/ https://www.wired.com/story/elizabeth-warren-unveils-plan-ex...
- TuringNYC 7y agoI read the entire wired article, the article is about expanding broadband access to areas which dont have broadband. A worthy exercise...but that is different from: 1. Applying her [awesome] CFPB approach to telco where you cant just spring mystery charges post-hoc and hang customers on a contract they didn't agree to. 2. Allowing multiple broadband providers to compete
- ceejayoz 7y ago1. The CFPB already tackles that. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-to-obtain-120-million-in-redress-from-sprint-and-verizon-for-illegal-mobile-cramming/ https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes... 2. A number of items that would help with that are included in the article. Changes to utility pole ownership, encouraging municipal broadband alternatives, etc.
- thwythwy 7y agoShe also proposes to strike down state laws that prohibit municipal broadband options, and I'm shocked at this point that you're standing by your original comment that she's only regulating Big Tech. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmjja/elizabeth-warren-promises-to-kill-state-laws-that-ban-locally-owned-isps https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmjja/elizabeth-warren-p...