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

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."

Comments

Hey why have 3 branches of government

[Crashmarik]

When you can rule by fiat with just one.

Re:Hey why have 3 branches of government

[PopeRatzo]

That said, really am getting tired of the judicial activists jumping in on something that those agencies clearly have purview on, it only screws up our system even further.

Right-wing think tanks (and red state AGs) brought many suits against the Obama Administration for things they didn't like. Mostly EPA regulations forcing them to have safe drinking water, etc. Landmark Legal Foundation made a nice little business bringing these suits, and it's founder, right-wing talk radio jackoff Jay Sekulow,, is now on Trump's legal team to prevent these suits from happening.

It's actually the way our system is supposed to work.

Wiretapping rules...

[tlambert]

Yes, being a common carrier would require them to comply with CALEA.

Without the rules, they just comply with CALEA voluntarily on Internet.

You still get wiretapped; you just don't get the projections that them being a common carrier would have afforded you otherwise.

For example: now that they are not common carriers, they no longer have to provide you with 911 service on your VOIP lines.

Re: There Is Another

[Ol Olsoc]

You almost had it right and then you ruined it by saying they should look at companies. They should not. It is "For the people, by the people." Thinking of the companies brought us in this mess.

This will cause lightning to descend from the skies to smite my heresy.

While the profit motive works well for many things, it does not follow that it works for everything. There are some things that should not be run by profit. Health care should not be a profit center, Government should not be a profit center. Churches should not be a profit center.

With all three being profit centers at this time - how's that workin' out for us?