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The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8326497

The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less::The Federal Communications Commission has passed new digital discrimination rules that hold telecom providers accountable for not providing equal internet access.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

frequency of 'spam' calls should have significant gone down with the implementation of cid verification (stir/shaken). it has on all our lines; home and office--cellular and pots.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Yeah, how the hell is it that I need a real, functioning phone number to use Signal, but then some robocaller can impersonate a number from my area code without actually owning it?

Privacy truly does belong to the rich.