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
Just so we’re very clear up front: despite a lot of bullshit to the contrary, the The Traitor administration is completely dismantling whatever’s left of U.S. consumer protection and corporate oversight. That’s not hyperbole; between recent Supreme Court rulings, The Traitor executive orders, and the actions of radical agency bossesContinue Reading