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Shit like this is honestly why the FCC needs authority to regulate things on the US internet.
There was a time in the long past where television networks were forced to normalize audio so that commercials weren't so much louder than the shows, which was happening for a while.
The internet just continues to be a fucking free-for-all of all the worst and most anti-user-centric ideas that exist. Just plying every bad idea that makes the internet difficult to use.
That's a task for a different administration.
They don't have that authority‽
There's been this tug-of-war between Republicans and Democrats at the FCC for like a solid decade or more now about whether the internet is classified as a "communications service" or an "information service." If it's classified as a communications service then the FCC has regulatory authority and can do things like enforce net neutrality. If it's classified as an information service, then the Federal Comminications Commission does not have authority to regulate it. The Biden FCC had been working to bring back net neutrality, but all that is pretty much out the window with a GOP toady in charge of the FCC now.
It really needs to be codified by congress to have sticking power for it to be regulated by the FCC or the tug-of-war for how to refulate the internet will continue indefinitely.
I'm fairly sure the Communications Commission regulates information services. Even this guy at the notorious Federalist Society's blog says it does.