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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by cat199 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:16PM (#17815045)
unfortunately anytime you mention something like this as a reasonable expectation for sane adults within the context of a us-focused discussion, one is almost immediately inundated with any one of:

- business must make a profit

- why are you being a socialist

- think of joe sixpack

- the USA is 'different'

arguments as to why this is not the case, and debate tends to die.

although I guess I'm saying 'the usa is different' in a different way.. so there's that

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by tripzilch on Friday August 24, 2018 @01:08PM (#17836199)
It's capitalism vs humanism. I'm not really sure why people prefer the former when the latter is an option. (I'm guessing it's knee-jerk from when it's not)

I say humanism because protecting (vulnerable) people from scams in advertising has nothing to do with socialism, and everything to do with people just being excellent to each other and helping one another.

Forces of capitalism have no compassion. It's quite a mechanical system, you can't expect that to produce a system with a consistent and sufficient amount of decency, without it tearing off a limb every once in a while.

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