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Ajit Pai says broadband market too competitive for strict privacy rules
Ajit Pai says broadband market too competitive for strict privacy rules
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and his counterpart at the Federal Trade Commission today argued that strict privacy rules for ISPs aren't necessary in part because the broadband market is more competitive than the search engine market. Internet users who have only one choice of high-speed home broadband providers would probably scoff at this claim.
arstechnica.com




Ajit Pai is a great ISP lawyer. He's doing so many good things for them. Shame he doesn't give a single fart for consumers or citizens. What a tool.
I dont think competition means what he thinks it means. I have multiple search engine choices but for an ISP I have comcast or comcast. If they want to talk just mobile my only real choice is AT&T just because of how the towers are setup and what the different companies consider roaming. Like Sprint charging roaming fees if you make a call outside of the store in the mall.
"Competitive" is not the same thing as consumer choice. Also they're not competing in the area of privacy. They're pretty much in lock step and they want to keep it that way because it makes them more money if they're mutually bad.
"Moving is free" is the biggest fiction in American politics. "If you don't like it, move" is the mantra they keep repeating as they delight in whatever indignity people are suffered next.
Business insider published an article on surviving on minimum wage that was later taken down after too many complaints. Wonkette did write a snarky response to it though. It involves moving to some place cheap, selling your car, living on ramen noodles and driving for uber for extra money. But yeah "move some place else" keeps coming up with the right and its annoying every time they say it.
He's using a definition of "competition" that primarily looks at distribution of market share. It's a pretty facile argument.