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23 Attorneys General Refile Challenge To FCC Net Neutrality Repeal (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A coalition of 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia on Thursday refiled legal challenges intended to block the Trump administration's repeal of landmark rules designed to ensure a free and open internet from taking effect. The Federal Communications Commission officially published its order overturning the net neutrality rules in the Federal Register on Thursday, a procedural step that allows for the filing of legal challenges. The states, along with web browser developer Mozilla and video-sharing website Vimeo, had filed petitions preserving their right to sue in January, but agreed to withdraw them last Friday and wait for the FCC's publication. The attorneys general argue that the FCC cannot make "arbitrary and capricious" changes to existing policies and that it misinterpreted and disregarded "critical record evidence on industry practices and harm to consumers and businesses." The White House Office of Management and Budget still must sign off on some aspects of the FCC reversal before it takes legal effect. That could take months.
Ah yes, the classic 'this regulation doesn't prevent every possible abuse, so we should overturn it and let ISPs do whatever they want instead of taking some protections now and fixing the problem later' argument. Good one.
I'm sick of lying trolls like that. Everyone sees right through you. When a regulation doesn't go far enough, or a law should address it (because team (R) is in power and you actually want anti-NN to be the law), you don't strip all protections in the mean time. That's being disingenuous, you want full repeal and no NN regs and you damn well know it.
I guess. Abuses of power? Nothing else going on? Gotta fight for the future crimes?
Come on, think about this.. It's an election year! I call it the political silly season. We are going to see all sorts of useless politically charged things said and done over the next few months. One has to make political hay as the opportunity presents itself and this NN issue plays well with specific groups.
So who are those groups being manipulated by this vain attempt to resurrect NN? Just look at which states are doing this and figure it out for yourself..
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
LOL, You do understand that some folks over at the FCC already HAVE them right? (and I do believe they are loaded)
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
You make a very convincing argument, but I think there's one important fact that you haven't considered: fartbagel.
I guess I'm putting more of a question out to readers who understand this. So 22 state AGs are going to sue the FCC because they can't 'arbitrary and capricious changes to existing policies and misinterpreted and disregarded "critical record evidence on industry practices and harm to consumers and businesses'.
Ok, so what will this do? Is there a way this will do anything beside a "dog and pony show"? Is this just political posturing or can the AGs tell the FCC what to do?
Personally, in all of these discussions I would like people to define what NN is to them and how they understand it. I live in Washington and I know our state governor is budgeting for a speed test website to support NN. Is this what people in leadership think NN is? What about you?
Which of these Attorneys General are up for re-election in 2018, or are in a state where the governor that appointed them is up for re-election?
If AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and all the rest want to abandon the principles of net neutrality, they are free to do so... HOWEVER, it means they will give up any and all tax breaks and other incentives given to them by the state, and then any legalized monopoly agreements they may have within the state are immediately null and void, so communities can decide to create their own ISP and there won't be anything the established players can do about it.
This is just another case of being careful what you wish for. Verizon's initial lawsuit backfired on the industry by resulting in the telecom companies being classified as common carriers with even more restrictive regulations. Now that net neutrality has been repealed, instead of one universal set of regulations for the entire country, they have to contend with a patchwork of different policies in every state they operate in. So now they have to hire a small army of lawyers and regulatory experts to make sure they're in compliance with each state's specific regulations, instead of one or two for a single federal regulation. Someone didn't really think this through.
I can think of all the ways an unshackled corporate monopoly can innovate access to a vital resource. Yes, I can't wait for all the innovation. I'll have a nice tall glass of trickle-down too, while you're at it.
All that effort to get Net Neutrality repealed and now they will have not not only fight every state, county, and city, but they will also likely have a complete patchwork of implementation they will have to implement or maintain or they will get sued out of their profit. I would not be surprised if they quietly give up.
Maybe just Maybe they actually believe that Healthcare IS a fundamental right.
Crazy Right?
242 years ago a bunch of wackos published a manifesto. Several years later they amended it with crazy shit like Free Speech and trial by juries were rights. And the rest of the world looked on and said "What is this crazy shit. Free Speech and freedom of religion? That's just nuts." Years later those crackpots went further and said blacks couldn't be enslaved. And the rest of the world said "What are those guys smoking over there." Actually that's false. The rest of the civilized world had already eliminated slavery.
These days things are a little different. Some people are now saying affordable health care should be a right. And the rest of the worlld is wondering when this backwater shithole country is going to catch up to the rest of the civiliized world."
It's not that it can't be repealed by the Right. Sure it can be repealed by the Right. But look at why
it's being repealed by the Right. It's pretty apparent that the main reason the Right is dismantling things like health care and Net Neutrality is because it was done by a <shudder>black</shudder> president. And because the Koch brothers want it that way.
That's surprisingly literate for a millennial.
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Every person who works for the government thinks they should have a gun.
To keep the common people away and âoedonâ(TM)t you know who I am!?â
It need to be stressed that the FCC is an independent commission of the United States and is therefore not part of the administration.
It is not part of the executive branch, and so no president has authority over it. It's not in the executive branch chain of command.
This may sound like a minor detail, but I think it's worthwhile for us to insist that the FCC remain independent of the president as it was designed. No matter who is in the White House, the FCC was set up to prevent any president from having authority over the US communication systems.
Networks can't "compete" - not when right of way on the last mile is a public resource. The best you can do is keep providers from taking untoward economic advantage of their natural monopoly. Network neutrality is a part of that, keeping from from double dipping.
But we are gonna go back to the dark days of 2014 when nobody had internet and you had to pay $20 to do a google search.
Gonna be funny watching NN proponents get more and more desperate as the world doesn't end.