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no one wants to hear this but the FCC is effectively a non-agency, a cheerleader for good things that align with an administrations priorities in an election ye
by nimbius 2y ago
no one wants to hear this but the FCC is effectively a non-agency, a cheerleader for good things that align with an administrations priorities in an election year at best. Verizon, Charter, and ATT all represent more than 250 billion USD in revenue.
If your fines all cap out before 100 million dollars, its just the cost of doing business for them. If youre unwilling to suspend or revoke a license, then your threats of enforcement are toothless.
taxes for these agencies are four billion dollars a year. 100 million isnt even half a percent of that. Its a rounding error at best and they can afford to eat that fee until the last star falls from the heavens.
- justinclift 2y agoWhat's the right way to fix that problem? :)
- bitwize 2y agoMove to Europe? Government needs to be an adversary to big business, not its puppet. An idea that's not likely to take root in the USA, whose political philosophy is oriented around toxic individualism (and racism).
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago> Move to Europe? People have. The problem with FCC not fulfilling it's mandate - it's still here. Our challenge: We have voted-in inept lawmakers for generations. They've allowed regulatory capture to become the norm. In a lot of ways we're in the 1910s again.
- dragonwriter 2y ago> If your fines all cap out before 100 million dollars, Citation please on the available fines capping out before $100M? I think the record fine the FCC has assessed is $100M against AT&T for violating the open internet transparency rule by throttling “unlimited data” customers in 2015, but as I recall that wasn't at (and obviously not beyond) the cap on their authority in that case.