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Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say

Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/fcc-floats-ban-on-cable-tv-junk-fees-that-make-it-hard-to-ditch-contracts/

Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say.

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.

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abuttifulpigeon

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

bruhduh

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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

btmoo

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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.

lolcatnip

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Correct, assuming some fairly specific definitions of "conservatives" and "anarchy".

Transporter_Room_3

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I'm sure you also believe "the market will self-regulate" despite near-daily evidence that without stronger regulation it's a race to the bottom.

Truth is denied those who seek it with both eyes shut.

abuttifulpigeon

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Actually, quite the opposite.

I believe that in general the economy should be left free, but not in cases of extreme recession or inflation (ex. Right now). In fact, that's basically one of the three reasons the federal government was established; to establish a common currency and economy, to regulate mail, and to solve disputes between states.

That being said, a private company should be able to run their business how they want to run it without being told off by a government.

Edit: Clarified wording.

lolcatnip

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I believe that in general the economy should be left free

But why? Do you really think it's good for service providers to screw their customers around with things like cancellation fees? Market forced have clearly failed to prevent that particular kind of fuckery.