• baronofclubs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can’t the FCC just tell them they’ll be fined if they don’t comply? Don’t tell them how much they’ll be fined. Let them make their decision, then tell them how much it will cost.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      What’s happening here is actually what largely should be happening. The FCC announces that they intend to make some changes, then there’s a period of public comment where anyone including the companies the FCC regulates and their customers can share their opinions, at the end of that period the FCC reviews the comments and can adjust their plans as needed. The reason for this is that the FCC regulates a highly technical field and allowing companies to comment about how a regulation may affect them in ways the FCC may not have thought of helps prevent the FCC from accidentally regulating away future innovations.

      In this case the FCC wishes to implement a common sense rule about clearly displaying the full price of the service and the ISPs are saying they don’t like that, so the FCC at the end of the comment period should identify that the ISPs are being silly and implement the rule.