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Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights
New submitter WickedLilMonkies writes "In a stretch of the meaning of 'free speech' that defies the most liberal interpretation, Verizon defends throttling your data speed."
In its continuing case to strike down the FCC net neutrality regulations, Verizon is arguing that Congress has not authorized the FCC to implement such regulations, and therefore the FCC is overstepping its regulatory bounds, but (from the article): "Verizon believes that even if Congress had authorized network neutrality regulations, those regulations would be unconstitutional under the First Amendment. 'Broadband networks are the modern-day microphone by which their owners [e.g. Verizon] engage in First Amendment speech,' Verizon writes." They are also arguing that "... the rules violate the Fifth Amendment's protections for private property rights. Verizon argues that the rules amount to 'government compulsion to turn over [network owners'] private property for use by others without compensation.'"
Violates our right to violate others free speech rights.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking. Kindly screw off. I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
'Cause, you know, corporations are endowed by their creators with inalienable rights.
"Corporations are people, my friend." - Thomas Jefferson
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You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking. Kindly screw off. I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
'Cause, you know, corporations are endowed by their creators with inalienable rights.
"Corporations are people, my friend." - Thomas Jefferson
"That's a big pile of horse shit." -- Abraham Lincoln
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
What is your brain made of? Not something that is capable of reading comprehension, apparently.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
""Corporations are people, my friend." - Thomas Jefferson"
Really? Can they vote? Get married?
Yes, but in most states they can only marry corporations of the opposite sex.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
>>>>Corporations are people, my friend." - Thomas Jefferson
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>>That's a big pile of horse shit." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The emperor should not be throwing people to the lions for exercising their free speech on the internet." - Senator Cicero
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Incorrect. Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate taco stands. Or any other business that never crosses a border.
You are wrong. If you think otherwise, open a taco stand and put up a big sign saying "We only serve white people".
But that's cannibalism/murder.