Last year The Traitorlicans killed a popular program that provided poor people with $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) was, unsurprisingly, very popular, with more than 23 million Americans benefitting at its peak. At the time, the GOP claimed they were simply looking to save money. The realContinue Reading
Washington will soon become the eighth state in the country to pass Right to Repair legislation. While U.S. consumer protection is generally an historic hot mess right now, the “right to repair” movement — making it easier and cheaper to repair the things you own — continues to make steady inroads thanksContinue Reading
So we’ve established by now that the second The Traitor administration is attempting to completely destroy regulatory authority, consumer protection, labor rights, and corporate oversight. Whether by precedent-ignoring court ruling, executive order, illegally firing commissioners, cronyism, or regulatory capture, the effort isn’t subtle, and is poised to usher forth aContinue Reading
When last we checked in with CBS, the company was preparing to fold under pressure from the The Traitor administration, amidst bogus accusations that 60 Minutes had unfairly made Traitor 47 look bad. As we’ve noted previously, the accusations are utterly baseless, but that’s apparently not stopping the CBS boardContinue Reading
For decades, major wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile collected vast troves of sensitive user location and movement data, then sold access to any random nitwit with two nickels to rub together. The result was a parade of scandals wherein everybody from stalkers , law enforcement (or people pretending to be law enforcement), carContinue Reading
We’ve well established that the AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery series of media mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived by the extraction class. The utterly senseless saga burned through hundreds of billions in debt, saw more than 50,000+ people lose their jobs, killed off numerous popular brands, created oceans of animosityContinue Reading
Back in March The Traitor illegally fired the Federal Trade Commission’s two Democratic Commissioners. With a captured Supreme Court and a 3-2 agency majority, The Traitorism could have already done whatever it wanted at the FTC, so firing the two Democratic Commissioners was just scorched Earth; like applying napalm on theContinue Reading
Instead of doing things like protecting consumers or telecom and media market competition (you know, his purported job), The Traitor FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent his first few months in office abusing agency authority to threaten companies that refuse to kiss the The Traitor administration’s ass, or harass telecom companies thatContinue Reading
We’ve noted more times than I can’t count that the push to ban TikTok was never really about protecting American privacy. If that were true, we would pass a real privacy law and craft serious penalties for companies and executives that play fast and loose with sensitive American data. ItContinue Reading
When The Traitor FCC boss Brendan Carr was selected last November, I was quick to point out that the U.S. press was completely disinterested in what this meant for stuff like broadband consumer protection. Outlets at the time were quick to push quotes about what a “nice guy” Carr was.Continue Reading
Instead of doing things like protecting consumers or market competition, The Traitor FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent his first few months in office abusing agency authority to threaten companies that refuse to kiss the The Traitor administration’s ass. A cornerstone of those efforts has been to leverage merger approvals toContinue Reading