Cable's Top Lobbyist Again Calls For Heavier Regulation Of Silicon Valley

Cable's Top Lobbyist Again Calls For Heavier Regulation Of Silicon Valley

6 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181102/07300040968/cables-top-lobbyist-again-calls-heavier-regulation-silicon-valley.shtml

After having just successfully convinced the Trump administration to neuter state and federal oversight of lumbering telecom monopolies, those same companies continue their unyielding call for greater regulation of Silicon Valley.

If you've been paying attention, you'll know that Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon's attack on net neutrality rules was just the tip of a massive, dysfunctional iceberg. Those companies have also convinced the Trump administration to effectively neuter FCC authority over ISPs, and are in the process of trying to ban states from protecting consumers from wrongdoing as well (you know, for freedom or whatever). With neither competition nor even tepid meaningful oversight in place, the kind of bad behavior we've long seen from Comcast appears poised to only get worse.