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  • NCTA CEO Michael Powell claimed during a January 2024 hearing that “a consumer may easily misunderstand the consequences of canceling and it may be imperative that they learn about better options” …

    Perhaps the consumer has “learn[ed] about better options” at another company, or that a “better option” for them is to not purchase the service at all from anyone. I’m sure the … ::flips pages::cable company is offering a completely holistic assessment of the consumer’s needs to help them make the best decision for themselves, right?

    …and that the rule’s disclosure and consent requirements raise “First Amendment issues.”

    “It is our First Amendment right to browbeat people into not being our customers anymore! staying as our customers when they tell us they don’t want to be!

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  • frame

    Now, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

    Story time: In the super old days, I want to say 1996? 1997? I wrote a four or five line HTML that would split the screen into two horizontal frames, then split those each into vertical frames, then those horizontal – ad infinitum.

    I don’t think there were any browsers that didn’t fail that test. I’m sure I only checked IE3 or IE4 and Netscape. One of them locked the computer up and had to be killed via “close program.” The other one locked the machine up and it became completely unresponsive, needing to be hard booted.