Nice job, FCC, and only 20 years late!
Right? Like why the fuck did it take so long? Ohhh right. Ashit Pie.
Solving yesterday’s problems, tomorrow!
Cable lobby group NCTA-The Internet & Television Association claimed that the commission’s “micromanagement of advertising in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace will force operators to either clutter their ads with confusing disclosures or leave pricing information out entirely.”
Or, you know, you could just tell the truth.
hyper-competitive marketplace
Ah yes, when I think of “hyper competitive” I think of the one and only one cable provider who services my neighborhood.
Whoa whoa whoa, have you been playing too many online games recently? Because your views are sounding a little bit extreme there…
As an autist who doesn’t always catch sarcasm, I have to ask: what alien robot downvoted you?
My family hasn’t been subscribed a satellite/cable tv service in almost 16 years… 8 if you include streaming services.
Their shitty services, comercials, deceptive pricing, arbitrary limitations, and lack of content drove me away long ago. 🏴☠️
Haven’t had cable nor streaming services my entire life, and I’m 35. Though I do pay for YouTube Premium. Then again, I watch media reviewers and longform film and game essayists. And speedruns. I buy or pirate all my shows. I “own” a number of shows on Google Play, but the last several years has made me stop buying there too. Physical or piracy, baby.
Whoever Joe Brandon appointed to the FCC seems to be a real one.
Noo the gubernment can’t have teeth! Won’t anyone think of the billionaires!?
the only law is gods law*
*to be picked and chosen depending on how I feel.
It’s definitely funny how they identify as Christian while ignoring everything Christ taught.
Funny how all those guys are always divorced and have a mistress
Quick! Someone tell us why this isn’t a good thing because the government did it! Surely there’s some secret corruption at work!
Whatever it is It will only come down to costing companies with deep lobby pockets money and how the conservative new agencies are spinning it.
I’d like to see everything priced on the rim and out the door. Taxes, registration, fees, shipping all on the line. I’d like the price on the shelf/invoice/website/advertisement/cash register and bank statement to all match.
I’m gonna call out the way Amazon bills your credit card for multi-item orders on this one. That’s some fuckery right there.
What do they do?
They charge your card for seemingly random groups of products so your order is split into strange Unrecognizable transaction amounts, and you can’t tell by looking them which order items the charges are for, and if your want to see, it’s buried deep in your account settings.
Umm uhhhh they’ll have to increase the total price to make up the difference in processing more numbers which will cause the employee budget to decrease hurting the local economy which means less taxes to fund fire department and your babies will burn in a fire caused by the unqualified cable tech they had to hire to offset the loss in profits.
No no no, you got all wrong. Think of the children! They are ruining the future of our children!
They did mention babies burning…
Mmm, short long pig soft long short ribs.
Did you have a stroke? O:
