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Brendan Carr wants to preserve data caps, punish NBC, and give money to SpaceX.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Starlink is a SpaceX subsidiary.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nope, fees just get passed to the customer.