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Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority.
An anonymous reader writes "According to a report from Gizmodo, a U.S. Appeals Court has invalidated the FCC's Net Neutrality rules. From the decision: 'Given that the Commission has chosen to classify broadband providers in a manner that exempts them from treatment as common carriers, the Communications Act expressly prohibits the Commission from nonetheless regulating them as such. Because the Commission has failed to establish that the anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules do not impose per se common carrier obligations, we vacate those portions of the Open Internet Order.' Could this be the final nail in the coffin for Net Neutrality? Or will the FCC fight back? This submitter really, really hopes they fight back..."
You don't understand the root cause of the financial crisis. Clinton tried to encourage home ownership among lower income brackets by forcing banks to make a certain percentage of their mortgages to those borrowers (can you say "quota"?). In order to make that happen he changed the laws on how mortgages were approved with his National Homeownership Strategy. None of that came from conservatives or Wall Street. It was a liberal agenda run amok.
Only if you have absolutely no clue about what is left and what is right.
I was basing that statement on the commonly held definitions as summed up in this wikipedia article. To better understand why you are confused about this from living in the US, the section 'Contemporary usage in the United States' describes the usage you are used to in context.
It is also recommended that you read the rest of the article, which describes what the terms actually mean to the majority of the world. These are subjective terms however so you are not categorically wrong, just informationally challenged.
Then you are interpreting the article you link VERY wrongly.
Sort of. The real deal is we have two "sides", who are both right (from the perspective of someone outside the US). The way they truly differ, significantly, is in which industries they're beholden to. The "right" is in bed with the oil & gas industries and defense industries, while the "left" is in bed with the media and telecom industries. They're both in bed with the finance industry.
So, if you want legislation which doesn't favor the MPAA and RIAA, you need to vote for the Party which wants to ban contraception. Great choice we have here....