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FCC Chairman: Net Rules Will Withstand Court Challenge
An anonymous reader writes with this story about FCC chairman Tom Wheeler's confidence that the net neutrality rules the agency passed last month will stand up to upcoming challenges in court."Now that the FCC is the subject of several lawsuits, and its leader, Chairman Tom Wheeler, was dragged in front of Congress repeatedly to answer the same battery of inanity, it's worth checking in to see how the agency is feeling. Is it confident that its recent vote to reclassify broadband under Title II of the Telecommunications Act will hold? Yes, unsurprisingly. Recently, Wheeler gave a speech at Ohio State University, laying out his larger philosophy regarding the open Internet. His second to last paragraph is worth reading: "One final prediction: the FCC's new rules will be upheld by the courts. The DC Circuit sent the previous Open Internet Order back to us and basically said, 'You're trying to impose common carrier-like regulation without stepping up and saying, "these are common carriers.'" We have addressed that issue, which is the underlying issue in all of the debates we've had so far. That gives me great confidence going forward that we will prevail.""
sometimes i like to pick my nose and eat it
Is Optimistic. It is his position to state as such, Statists always do, then are often smacked down in court due to interest of business, aren't they learning anythjng from the TPP? The governmentnis in bed with business, its all a show of smoke and mirrors used to confuse and misdirect the citizens on whos turn is it to put us over a barrel, either the government or big business or is it time for being dp'd by both. To think otherwise is exactly what they want.
DistroWatch is running an an article entitled The systemd Project Forks the Linux Kernel.
Can anyone confirm if that story is true?
Some of the comments for that article are suggesting it may just be an April fool's joke that has come a few days early.
Has the systemd project actually forked the Linux kernel? Or is this some sort of a joke/hoax?
That stuff gets published weekly, so they have to chose whether to hoax too early, or too late.
Like Tom was sure it would get shat on by the court? Duh! To find my steely dan and get it back in use would be more exciting to you. I bet.
Discuss.
to understand why more government control of the Internet is a good thing.
MOD UP FOR THIS SHITFEST FUCK SYSTEMD TO HELL Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
If they actually forked the kernel I'm pretty sure it would be in their repository and not one that's 11 days old.
News like that just feels like an April fools joke to me and I would assume it would to others. I mean, the systemd developers don't operate like that at all. That people would think it to be true at all shows how strange of a perception there is around the systemd project (take that as you want, one way or another people think the systemd devs would be crazy enough to do a full out fork of the kernel--does that mean people are deluded about systemd's goals or that systemd has put off indications that they would do such a thing).
The systemd developers have occasionally bumped heads with developers working on other projects, perhaps most notably Linux Torvalds, lead developer of the Linux kernel. Since systemd's init software works to bring the operating system on-line at boot time, systemd needs to work closely with the kernel and this can cause problems. In fact, some conflict and proposed solutions have resulted in at least one systemd developer getting banned from contributing to the Linux kernel.
Now it appears as though the systemd developers have found a solution to kernel compatibility problems and a way to extend their philosophy of placing all key operating system components in one repository. According to Ivan Gotyaovich, one of the developers working on systemd, the project intends to maintain its own fork of the Linux kernel. "There are problems, problems in collaboration, problems with compatibility across versions. Forking the kernel gives us control over these issues, gives us control over almost all key parts of the stack."
In essence, systemd will gain another component, the Linux kernel, which can be patched as needed to work better with other systemd components. Having both the init software and the kernel managed by one project will also allow bug fixes to be addressed more quickly and avoid conflict between Linux and systemd developers. Ivan says systemd developers plan to merge improvements and changes from Torvalds' kernel into the systemd project and, in an e-mail, confirmed systemd developers will make their own patches public so they can be merged back into Linus' Linux.
Biggest university in the entire USA, totally worthless at hosting, fostering or even doing anything in the public sphere besides football.
It may survive a court challenge but it wont survive the new legislation Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc are getting ready to submit to Congress via their bought congressmen and senators.
so now they'll mange, crangle and finagle every angle, they'll try, cry and lie, play, replay every day until they get their way.
I wish they would just fuck off and accept that, just for once, that capital didn't get it fucking way like it does every single other time.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
for the love of code, please o please don't slashdot github, they've had enough problems lately the way it is with slow-loading pages, timeouts and aborted file transfers.
I'm sure it is a hoax. If it were done by the official systemd team, it would have been deployed to all distros by now, overnight.
The ACA was passed in reconcilliation with only 51 votes, so do not be surprised if it is undone in 51 votes.
The Act of Congress that gave the FCC the authority to regulate the airwaves and telegraph lines did not include the authority to regulate Internetworking. It was already a legal stretch to include telephone service under the "telegraph lines" authority, but it is even more of a stretch to include the modern Internet.
The FCC should be defeated in court quite easily, quite possibly by summary judgment if the plaintiffs are smart enough to ask for one.
Please do. We look forward to implementing single payer when the next dem power wave comes. And also removing the filibuster to remove ALL conservative legislation.
How's that minority outreach looking by the way?
To be fair, most of systemd has sounded like an April Fools joke to me. For that matter, most of freedesktop has read that way lately.
"Heavily Regulated" == "Open". Orwell would love it.