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Related: About this forumFCC Reins in Predatory Prison Phone Rates
Last edited Mon Aug 19, 2013, 02:56 PM - Edit history (1)
The Center for Media Justice is reporting that the FCC also ruled that "commissions paid by prison phone companies to contracting government agencies (up to 70% of prison phone revenue) are not a cost of providing phone services and thus cannot be recovered."
By a two-to-one vote, the FCC last week voted to reform prison phone rates.
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FCC Reins in Predatory Prison Phone Rates (Original Post)
votesparks
Aug 2013
OP
I used to be one, as well, and it's "your" instead of "you're" that I keep seeing lately
Rhiannon12866
Aug 2013
#4
MADem
(135,425 posts)1. AGGGGGGGGH. It's REINS in, not REIGNS in.
You rein in a horse, and you also rein in (i.e. control) other stuff as well.
You reign over a kingdom.
Sorry to be a spelling nanny, but that error is an irritant.
I am fallible, but always willing to learn, and correct. I feel like a reindeer.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)3. As a former copy editor I agree.
That is such a common error. It is as bad as its and it's. Most people don't know the difference.
Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)4. I used to be one, as well, and it's "your" instead of "you're" that I keep seeing lately
That makes me crazy, too.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)5. Doo, Doo, Doo-Doo
I love their theme music.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)6. 2 to 1
shame on 1