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Lawsuit Filed By 22 State Attorneys General Seeks To Block Net Neutrality Repeal (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the cause-and-effect dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A lawsuit filed today by the attorneys general of 22 states seeks to block the Federal Communications Commission's recent controversial vote to repeal Obama era Net Neutrality regulations. The filing is led by New York State Attorney General Schneiderman, who called rollback a potential "disaster for New York consumers and businesses, and for everyone who cares about a free and open internet." The letter, which was filed in the United States District Court of Appeals in Washington, is cosigned by AGs from California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Washington DC.

"An open internet -- and the free exchange of ideas it allows -- is critical to our democratic process," Schneiderman added in an accompanying statement. "The repeal of net neutrality would turn internet service providers into gatekeepers -- allowing them to put profits over consumers while controlling what we see, what we do, and what we say online."

3 of 355 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hey why have 3 branches of government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The engine didn't quite start. Can you crank again?

  2. Re:Option #3 by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Our entire system of government was designed by wealthy landowners to give themselves a disproportionate amount of political power at the expense of the working class.

    Absolutely true. When it comes right down to it, the Founding Fathers were basically rich wine snobs who just didn't want to pay their taxes. All the stuff about liberty and equality was just so much happy horseshit to make the yahoos think there was something noble going on while they set up their aristocracy.

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    You are welcome on my lawn.
  3. Re: Quick question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your feelings of butthurt have exactly no bearing whatsoever on the reality that His Wholelyness describes.

    You take pride in your ignorance and you hide behind your resentment of those who embrace knowledge and difference, which is very much the problem with the Right these days.

    And we know how to spell and punctuate.

    So fuck you and the horse-drawn cart you drove here, Know-Nothing.