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T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

(arstechnica.com)
197 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source
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aprilthird2021 ◴[21 Oct 24 21:03 UTC] No.41908505[source]▶
There should be a shortcut through our legal bureaucracy to punish obvious BS like this. The amount of time wasted to evaluate such stupid claims is surely huge.
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1. 0xcde4c3db ◴[21 Oct 24 23:19 UTC] No.41909572[source]▶
I don't know about punishment being the norm, but I'd like to see an agency (perhaps a better-funded and more independent analog of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection) that is competent and efficient enough to legitimately earn a lot of deference. That is, they could issue a quasi-C&D "here's a handy step-by-step guide to avoid doing this the hard way (you dumbass)" letter and have any competent lawyer's default reaction be something like "they're almost certainly right and you'd be an idiot to fight this" instead of "here's how we can fight this".

Of course, that implies a system that places the interests of citizens at least on par with the interests of capital (and can conceive of those as distinct concepts in the first place), which is clearly communist crazy-talk.