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Why Google and Amazon Are Hypocrites (om.blog)
Amazon earlier this month responded to Google's decision to remove YouTube from all Fire TV products and the Echo Show. Google says it's taking this extreme step because of Amazon's recent delisting of new Nest products (like Nest Secure and the E Thermostat) and the company's long-running refusal to sell Chromecast or support Google Cast in any capacity. Veteran journalist Om Malik writes: This smacks of so much hypocrisy that I don't even know where to start. The two public proponents of network neutrality and anything but neutral about each other's services on each other's platforms. They can complain about the cable companies from blocking their content and charging for fast lanes. The irony isn't lost on me even a wee bit. They are locked in a battle to collect as much data about us -- what we shop, what we see, what we do online and they do so under the guise of offering us services that are amazing and wonderful. They don't talk about what they won't do with our data, instead, they bicker and distract. So to think that these purveyors of hyper-capitalism will fight for interests of consumers is not only childish, it is foolish. We as end customers need to figure out who is speaking on our behalf when it comes to the rules of the Internet.
Even when we [The People] speak on our own behalf in large numbers, nobody is listening.
There is your problem. You mistake the US as a democracy and the FCC under whims of popular opinion. The government is listening to "The People" through their elected representatives in Congress and Trump. Have you ever considered that "The People" disagree and the best way to handle that disagreement is through elections which we have had (having) to decide how best the government address the concerns of "The People"? Sometimes in elections your opinion loses to the other opinion.
If the current FCC chair is so bad then Obama shouldn't have nominated him to serve in the FCC. Yes, under law he was required to nominate a republican and he was suggested by the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McTurtle (seriously looks and sounds like a turtle) but Obama didn't have to accept that recommendation and pick any other republican to fill the position.
What's the problem here and how is the government ignoring "The People"?