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.

  • kromem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure what part of my “technically are people” language (or comment elsewhere in this thread here) made you think I’m justifying it.

    But that is the fiscal conservative argument whether either of us thinks it is a good one or not, and thus a broad “it hurts people” needs greater specificity to scope it to main street concerns and not wall street concerns.

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      1 year ago

      This is some real ‘paradox of tolerance’ reasoning here. Clearly by ‘will people be hurt,’ they mean the average person, not the investor class.

    • Retrograde@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      and there it is, the double down lol

      Gross, dude. Listen to yourself.

      The next time you get charged $200 for an early termination, I hope you think “I’m happy the shareholders didn’t get hurt”.

      Fuck’s sake.