FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls(arstechnica.com)
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FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/fcc-republicans-force-prisoners-and-families-to-pay-more-for-phone-calls/
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This is pretty offensive. Is the purpose cruelty or provocation?
Cruelty. The motivating force of the modern Republican party is identify the "other" and then hurt them.
It's also to add more bad noise to try to distract from the major damage they're doing. They've specifically outlined this. Overwhelm the "enemy" - in this case non-MAGA - with bad stuff so they can't focus on anything.
It's also to add more bad noise to try to distract from the major damage they're doing. They've specifically outlined this. Overwhelm the "enemy" - in this case non-MAGA - with bad stuff so they can't focus on anything.
Cruelty. It's always the cruelty.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt... | https://archive.today/NjiSx
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt... | https://archive.today/NjiSx
Another squeeze on the budgets of the American family to further enrich the already wealthy. They just can't stop making life in the US more and more expensive for the average person. Conveniently incarceration rates are going up so there will be more Americans behind bars.
This can be avoided by not Crime'ing
This is sad. Hopefully that there is a cap at all still improves matters compared to the situation before the limits existed.
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