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FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Quick! Someone tell us why this isn't a good thing because the government did it! Surely there's some secret corruption at work!

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do they do?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

The lobbying group for cable companies said that it would hurt their highly competitive market(I'm sure they weren't able to type that without laughing) and it makes it harder for them to advertise one price since the cost of the sports and local bundles are regional (though they have no problems getting those prices correct on the bills.)

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No no no, you got all wrong. Think of the children! They are ruining the future of our children!

[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

They did mention babies burning...

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I just want the unqualified cable tech to not snip the cable to my antenna while he's in my backyard.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Only complaint I have is they waited till the shit is dying to step in and do something. But hey, still a win yo