Do consumers have any rights left in America other than the right to consume?
After AT&T's crushing blow, FTC tells Senate it wants its balls back
US trade watchdog the FTC says it will appeal the August decision stripping its ability to fine AT&T. In a hearing before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation this week, FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez confirmed her agency will challenge the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling that corporations that deliver a …
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Thursday 29th September 2016 07:08 GMT Richard Jones 1
US Customer Rights
The Right to be shafted.
The Right to be gouged.
The Right to no redress for shoddy service.
The Right to no redress over shoddy provisions.
The Right to no redress for anything supplied by a US company however dangerous.
The Right for the government to fine overseas entities anything they like whether justified or not.
You get the picture over rights?
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Thursday 29th September 2016 07:22 GMT Mikerahl
Re: So, business as usual?
Here's a thought. How about removing all regulation from telecommunications? Including all limitations placed on radio waves (possibly exempting a few frequencies reserved for police and the military), and any right of way to use people's backyards (forcing telcos to pay for everyone's land they want to use, individually), requiring them to pay for any use of public land, municipality by municipality, Perhaps when their networks cease to function, they'll see a value to regulation?
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Friday 30th September 2016 19:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Her role is to regulate what is legislated, not what is missing from the law.
FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez, "The exception no longer makes sense in today’s deregulated environment where the lines between telecommunications and other services are increasingly becoming blurred, such as when telecommunications companies are buying edge providers and consumers increasingly communicate over online social networks instead of landlines."
Edith is correct... but it is the elected legislator who must grant her the scope of what she is to regulate. Will she try to regulate Social Networks next, as she alludes to in her quote?
She might as well just try to regulate the noise emanating from the water closet, since the sound travels over the air waves... and that would be struck down, as well, by reasonably fair justices.