FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls

Posted by pseudolus 10/30/2025

FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls(arstechnica.com)

25 points | 10 comments

frob 10/30/2025|

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josefritzishere 10/30/2025||

This is pretty offensive. Is the purpose cruelty or provocation?

JohnTHaller 10/30/2025||

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.

toomuchtodo 10/30/2025||

Cruelty. It's always the cruelty.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt... | https://archive.today/NjiSx

OutOfHere 10/30/2025|||

It's just plain money-grubbing.

mieses 11/1/2025|||

list one form of punishment that is not cruel

fragmede 11/1/2025||

fining people a fine that can afford while still impacting their lifestyle negativity enough that they actually notice, without forcing them to go hungry or homeless.

autoexec 10/30/2025||

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.

LovingIT 10/31/2025||

This can be avoided by not Crime'ing

spwa4 10/30/2025|

This is sad. Hopefully that there is a cap at all still improves matters compared to the situation before the limits existed.