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Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com)
"Network operators like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and ATT, in cahoots with [real estate] developers and landlords, routinely use a breathtaking array of kickbacks, lawyerly games of Twister, blunt threats, and downright illegal activities to lock up buildings in exclusive arrangements," reports Harvard Law Professor Susan Crawford.
itwbennett writes: Eight years ago, the FCC issued an order banning exclusive agreements between landlords and ISPs, but a loophole is being exploited, leaving many tenants in apartment buildings with only one choice of broadband service provider. The loophole works like this: Instead of having an exclusive agreement with one provider, the landlords refuse to let any other companies than their chosen providers access their properties...
"This astounding, enormous, decentralized payola scheme affects millions of American lives," Crawford writes, revealing Comcast's revenue-sharing proposals for property owners and urging cities (and national lawmakers) to require broadband neutrality in residential buildings. Other loopholes are also being exploited, Crawford writes, and "it's why commercial tenants in NYC pay through the nose for awful Internet access service in the fanciest of commercial buildings... We've got to take landlords out of the equation -- all they're doing is looking for payments and deals...and the giant telecom providers in our country are more than happy to pay up."
"This astounding, enormous, decentralized payola scheme affects millions of American lives," Crawford writes, revealing Comcast's revenue-sharing proposals for property owners and urging cities (and national lawmakers) to require broadband neutrality in residential buildings. Other loopholes are also being exploited, Crawford writes, and "it's why commercial tenants in NYC pay through the nose for awful Internet access service in the fanciest of commercial buildings... We've got to take landlords out of the equation -- all they're doing is looking for payments and deals...and the giant telecom providers in our country are more than happy to pay up."
Don't you understand. To Trump's loyal followers, what Trump does is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. His actions, his behavior, his history, they have no bearing on his fitness and suitability. All that counts is that he hates Mexicans and Muslims, and will do some vague things that will somehow make everything better.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Just like Justin Bieber fans...
Oh jesus christ... Trump followers are EXACTLY like Bieber fans....
I bet they like Nickelback as well.....
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That's a damn lie!
First of all, Hillary was in Congress for eight years total, which for those of us who can do math, adds up to less than one decade. Bernie has been in Congress since 1991.
Second, their records on things like gun control and foreign policy are almost diametrically opposed (and on every issue where they differ, Bernie gets it right while Hillary gets it wrong!).
Third, Bernie has integrity, and has had the same platform for his entire career. Hillary is fucking corrupt and her platform blows with the political winds. She cannot be trusted.
They are nothing alike, at all, whatsoever.
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