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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.""
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.
This isn't government control of the internet, and government control of the internet would be a very bad thing. How long do you think unbreakable encryption would last if the government had control? The FBI is already starting to take up a position that they want to ban it entirely.
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
Apparently DistroWatch's source is "Ivan Gotyavich", a developer on the systemd project. A Google search for his name returns no other results, and it's suspiciously a corruption of "I got you", as one would exclaim after successfully perpetrating a hoax.
The AC commenting on every story trying to manufacture a systemd-centered argument is definitely a troll.
In short, Linux fans still have nothing to worry about. A new package provides several new utilities, some distros are choosing to include those utilities and depend on them. That may break a few things and cause disruption for a while, but in short order, the fanatic neckbeards with their bash superpowers will ensure that everything is compatible. It's business as usual in a large software ecosystem.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
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.
it's kind of like the concept of the free market
without rules, enforced, all markets quickly devolve into oligarchies and monopolies: customers and smaller players squashed and abused
so a free market requires government regulation
likewise, without rules enforcing net neutrality, large market players start fucking with the status quo to siphon off more cash. simply because they can
but there exists certain idiots in the world, a lot in the usa, who only see the government as a threat. the government IS a threat, in many avenues of life
but in the market place, the government is usually your only friend when it comes to real abuse from large market players
there does exist regulatory capture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
but again, this is an argument against corruption, not against government. again, the problem with regulatory capture is large market players corrupting the rules. so you want to heal your sick government, not weaken it further, thereby giving large market players yet even more ways to abuse you. and they will
but certain people, they just utterly lack the awareness that the government is not the only evil bogeyman in the world. many times in fact, like regulatory capture, the government isn't really the ultimate bogeyman, but just the front for the real villains: plutocracy
we need strong anticorruption rules in the usa. badly. the people are losing to big money. this will be our downfall
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Courts have already agreed they have the authority, so I am not sure where you get your information from.
When you cant win, ad hominem.
It seem you are implying that corruption cannot happen in the free market without government involvement. The government is a tool, just like guns. The biggest evil bogeymen are the ones that use that tool to do evil, which are typically corporations.
When you cant win, ad hominem.
it can self-regulate as well.
so company {X} dominates a market for widgets. any smaller companies try to compete, they undercut the competitors prices to starve them out, then jack prices way high when the smaller companies fold, consumers having no real choice
tell me how this problem is "self-regulated" by the market to correct for the abuse
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Courts have already agreed they have the authority, so I am not sure where you get your information from.
From that area between the lower back and the upper legs.