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Six Tech Companies Filing Net Neutrality Lawsuit (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Six technology companies, including Kickstarter, Foursquare and Etsy, have launched a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in an effort to preserve net neutrality rules. The companies, which also include Shutterstock, Expa and Automattic, on Monday filed their petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The companies join Vimeo and Mozilla, as well as several state attorneys general who have also filed lawsuits against the FCC in support of the net neutrality rules. Like the other lawsuits, their new case hinges on the Administrative Procedure Act, which they argue prevents the FCC from "arbitrary and capricious" redactions to already existing policy. "Already, over 30,000 Etsy sellers participated in the FCC's public comment process, and tens of thousands more reached out to Congress in support of net neutrality. Now we're bringing their stories and experiences to the courts," said Althea Erickson, head of advocacy and impact at Etsy.
Haven't proven they were harmed. Court will throw it out. Plus this is DC Circuit. Will take years. Trump will be long gone.
You can't sue Congress for not passing the laws you like....
Although many now turn to the Judicial Branch as a new source of defacto legislation.
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In other words, once a policy is implemented it can never be rescinded, even if it should not have been implemented in the first place, because someone, somewhere will always think that rescinding it is "arbitrary and capricious", no matter how much discussion and consideration the agency went through. It does not matter if the creation was arbitrary and capricious, the deletion must not occur.
Is there a renewed uproar over the removal of CW requirements for amateur radio licenses? That change certainly was arbitrary and capricious.
like Google & Microsoft & IBM getting in on this, the more the better. it needs to gain in size and strength like a snowball effect
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Just because they are the enemies of our enemies does not make them our friends. The fact that they have the same goals this time is nice, but irrelevant in the long term.
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None of the 6 companies listed are tech companies. So, who are the tech companies that are suing?
The terms "tech, innovative, disrupt" don't mean what they originally meant. They are nothing but meaningless buzzwords now.
I am pretty sure that clause of APA doesn't even apply to this situation. I am pretty that clause only applies to agency actions that are judicial and trial-like, like when an agency is deciding if you violated a regulation and want your punishment should be. I don't think it applies to agency actions that are legislative, like when they are setting the regulations. When they are doing that, they are acting under the powers delegated to them by Congress. And the court can't overturn those unless they are unconstitutional.
Makes easy to know the companies to boycott over their antifree market ideologies. No doubt all Democrat party support donations too, so double win for honest Americans like me.