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First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive
An anonymous reader writes: A small ISP based in Texas and an industry trade group have become the first to file lawsuits challenging the FCC's recent net neutrality rules. The trade group, USTelecom, argues that the regulations are not "legally sustainable." Alamo Broadband claims it is facing "onerous requirements" by operating under Title II of the Communications Act. Such legal challenges were expected, and are doubtless the first of many — but few expected them to arrive so soon. While some of the new rules were considered "final" once the FCC released them on March 12, others don't go into effect until they're officially published in the Federal Register, which hasn't happened yet.
The government didn't create the internet. The government created ARPANET, which was nothing compared to the internet today. The internet sort of grew grew out of that, first at universities using ARPANET as a backbone and later through direct connections between ISP's, as well as using other existing networks (like CompuServe, AOL, etc) to connect one place to another. However today's internet is a very UNINTENDED consequence of ARPANET - which the government (including Al Gore) would love to lay claim to.
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Your comment reminded me of this video.
In it Obama is confronted with his tax policy reducing revenue. His response is his tax changes are not to increase revenue but to increase "fairness". By fairness he actually means to increase taxes on those he doesn't like.
So not only is your comment about conservatives wrong, but here I have video evidence of your liberal leader doing the "evil action" you blame conservatives for.
Reality has an anti-liberal bias.
And the government created that too. And the government decided eventually that confining the internet to just academia (as the NSFNET was) didn't make sense so they closed down the NSFNET and the main links changed to be commercial instead of government paid.
This period you speak of where the ARPANET was the backbone for a network that was generally used never existed. The NSFNET started out around 1987 and you didn't see any real commercial use of the internet until the early 90s. Even CIX (ANS) came in 1991 with the help of the NSF. After Congress (including Al Gore) passed legislation pushing the NSF to repeal its restrictions on commercial use you saw significant commercial uses take off.
Today's internet is in no way an unintended consequence. It may not have been paid for by the government, but they did design and develop it and were well aware of the possibilities beyond academia.
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Now I'm confused. If baseball hadn't been invented, how would Hank Aaron have hit home runs again?
Maybe we need to work on your similes.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The 2015 personal income maximum California tax rate is 13.30% for an individual making more then $1,000,000 or a couple making more then $1,039,374.
The 2015 California corporate tax rate is a flat 8.84%.
So are you a degenerate liar or just dumber then a box of rocks? The truth took a mindless Google search and about 20 seconds. Are you incapable of that level effort or do you expect that everyone one else is as uninformed as you are and will believe whatever drivel you post?
So go back to where you live in your mother's basement and look for the radioactive CIA mind control scorpions and leave the rest of us surface dwellers alone.
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