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.

  • abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    While this would be wonderful, I also believe that Cable providers are private companies, and shouldn’t be regulated by the government.

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      11 months ago

      If they wouldn’t apple would still sell lightning ports instead of type c, if government regulate behaviour of citizens they should regulate behaviour of corporations too, USA government said that corporations have legal rights as persons but somehow they don’t have same obligations as persons while they should have, if do A then do B it’s pretty simple

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      11 months ago

      I feel like conversatives just learn first principals and stop there. It’s kinda sad. The FCC, FTC, etc exist in order to keep our markets fair and consumer friendly.

      This weird, free-trade utopia that they dream about does not exist, has never existed, and cannot exist. Instead when you remove all the regulation, you get anarchy like we see today in many 3rd world countries.

      I would love to see our government get more efficient and targetted with its regulation, but to simply argue against it is extremely naive.