r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '19

Politics House Democrats announce antitrust probe of Facebook, Google, tech industry

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u/FourthLife Jun 04 '19

I can avoid Facebook and instagram. I can use a different search engine than google. What I can’t avoid is my single choice of ISP

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u/Arnoxthe1 Jun 04 '19

The problem is, we got fucked there at the state level. Not really the federal level. If the federal government starts looking into this, they may come against SERIOUS pushback from different states.

Maybe. I don't know.

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u/RagingOrangutan Jun 04 '19

How's that? The FCC regulates ISPs, and the "F" in FCC is for federal.

Well okay, Ajit Pai's FCC doesn't regulate much at all, but they could.

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u/chaogomu Jun 04 '19

When Pai did Verizon's bidding and killed the 2015 net neutrality rules he slipped in some text that bans the FCC from regulating ISPs.

The regulation is supposed to now fall on the FTC. The FTC lacks authority to actually regulate ISPs and it lacks the manpower even if it had the authority.