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Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court To Wipe Out Decision Upholding Net Neutrality (hollywoodreporter.com)
Repealing net neutrality wasn't enough for the Trump administration. Today, the administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a 2016 appeal court ruling that had upheld Obama era net neutrality rules that barred ISPs from blocking, throttling, or prioritizing content. Reuters reports: The request was made even though the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to toss out the 2015 rules late last year, rendering the fight over their legality moot. In a filing to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration said the question for the court was "whether the now-superseded 2015 order was invalid because it exceeded the FCC's statutory authority, was arbitrary and capricious, was promulgated without adequate public notice, or violated the First Amendment."
the current Supreme Court is stacked against government regulation of any kind. That is by design. We've been electing right wing presidents since I was born (yes, both Obama and Clinton, especially Clinton, were on the right wing). As the saying goes, Elections have consequences. America continues to choose candidates who oppose government regulation and favor leaving things up to the markets. We should stop acting surprised when that happens just because they're striking down a regulation we happen to like.
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In a filing to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration said the question for the court was "whether the now-superseded 2015 order was invalid because it exceeded the FCC's statutory authority, was arbitrary and capricious, was promulgated without adequate public notice, or violated the First Amendment."
Sounds like they want clarification on how, exactly, the FCC fucked up so they can use that against them in the future.
Germany here. This kind of ... well ... dictating, is when our government back then crossed the line into a dictatorship.
Like with an event horizon, you aren't aware you crossed it, at the time of it happening. But later on, you realize that this was the point where you would have had to stop it or die trying.
So please take care of yourselves over there. Especially the convenient scapegoat fringe groups. Don't believe what you are being told about "communists/socialists/democrats/republicans/libertarians/muslims/christians/jews".
... assuming repealing Net Neutrality will lead to less high speed internet use, which is not at all certain.
Actually the players backing the repeal of Net neutrality want you to use the Internet as much as you want But they want to throttle the competition and keep you locked in their pay-walled garden
A little editorial work done on the title of the post.
The title and the first line of the linked article: "Trump administration asks Supreme Court "
Title on Slashdot: "Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court "
That one-word change is a big difference, suggesting one branch of the gov't telling the other what to do.
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The Germans wanted it too, at the time. Dumb fuckin' human livestock never learns. The USA is the surviving Nazi regime anyway.
What ever happened to separation of powers between the three branches of government?
Sometimes, I think the White House stocks toilet paper with text of the Constitution printed on it, for the president's private use.
checks out.
No case or controversy; SCOTUS is going to tell the administration not to bother them with this.
I believe this is an attempt to curb free speech on the internet. You could imagine a broadband company that doesn't like a certain type of content asking an outrageous amount to allow that content access to the fiber. Who could say that legislation couldn't be put in place as financial incentive to allow certain types of content to be allowed on the fiber either. Does that violate free speech? I think it's unclear, free speech is allowed in the scenario, you just have to pay a really high premium.
Democracy IS tyranny. It is the tyranny of the masses over the thinking minority.
SCOTUS is one job where you can tell everyone FU!
They don't take demands.
They will consider a request by the President.
I hope they tell him where to stuff it.
I'm tired of Trump getting into things that aren't his place as President. SCOTUS should work unmolested by the Executive branch.
Follow the money. Check how much Verizon, AT&T, Cox, Comcast, Frontier, and other data providers gave to Trump and both DNC/RNC.
I believe this is an attempt to curb free speech on the internet.
That's exactly what it is. Too many people are becoming informed and educating themselves now policy decisions can be made to keep people wasting each others time watching cat vids on facebook whilst education and things important to running a free society are kept inaccessible.
Your post should be MODed UP instead of down, however that really shows how this is going to work.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Well Trump's added a corporatocrat and an executive power maximalist to the supreme court, so if there's ever a time they'll gleefully take this demand, it's now.
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This is one of those places where I think itâ(TM)s a lot smarter to shut up and take what youâ(TM)ve already got (not that Trump has any concept of how to actually do this). Say SCOTUS takes the case, then asks why the original rules were done in broad daylight, but the rescission in smoky back rooms with provably fake public comments, then comes back with a ruling saying the FCC did it right in 2015, screwed the pooch fifteen ways from yesterday in 2017, and puts Title II back in effect. Howâ(TM)s them apples?
How did /. degenerate into such a bunch of loonies so fast, as demonstrated by the posts here? My bet is professional agitators. Probably not Russian but just as nefarious. Anyone who believes the 90% of the posts here that are loony lefty drivel should be ashamed of themselves.
Is an electrical engineer not a "real job"? I work for Bechtel. I got a whole 0.8% raise this year. That's not a typo. ZERO POINT EIGHT percent. Fuck you, fuck trump, and fuck Bechtel. I've renewed my passport and packed my stuff. I'm outta here.
The internet was dealt with under the same regulations, then the rules sunset and the ISPs were no longer under those laws, so the NN laws were put in to cover them. THEY WERE ALWAYS UNDER THOSE RULES.
NoooooooOOooOoO. Shame, because if any of you had half a brain you'd realize Net Neutrality was an enormous pile of fecal matter.
You can't. You can only point to those who said Obama COULD do it and had some reason. But you HAVE to paint it 100% as "the left's" problem because you're a partisan shithead who hates anyone who isn't in your group.
So either THEY were lies and there's no need for evidence to refute them or there's no need for evidence to counter them.
But all the other shit? Including the new tax breaks? They LOVE that. Not one hates the executive order stream.
Obama spent too much time listening to Republicans in his first two years. He should have rammed through everything he could while he had the house and presidency, and appointed his supreme court picks while he could.
Those days of mutual respect and optimism seem quaint now.
The Republican objections to his legacy are complete hypocrisy, and the uneducated masses don't seem to care.
this lunatic will stir as many pots and tear up as many treaties and co tracts he just pissibly can before he is thrown out of that office.
he is a bafoon and a idiot (or well depending on agenda pretty smart)
he makes the US look like a laughing stock of countries. Even beats north korea on the tragicomic scale now by leagues.
i cant understand how americans put up with it. or are the most part of them just plane idiots buying in to that garbage comming out of thats twitter account.
i dare to bet that when he finally gets thrown out they wont even be able to rent anyone a space in Trump tower even if they pay the tennants to come.
in the mean time the rest of us will just sit back with beer and popcorn and look at the fars.
Good luck sorting that out later.
"Tell""Ask"
I am going to ask reader of this to do 2 things. First, please read the new bill introduced by Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) which was introduced July 17 (https://coffman.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_text_coffman_net_neutrality_bill.pdf). In very plain language, is would ensure the kind of open internet which (I believe) we all want. For anyone who wants net neutrality, this is it as simple and direct as it gets. We should be encouraging support for this bill or one like it.
The second thing I am going to ask is that you do as I have done and read the Obama era regulations which were repealed. I believe that anyone who actually reads them will understand how those regulations prevent small companies from participating in the market, reduces competition, and slows the expansion of internet services to small markets. These regulations are being used as a political tool and do not ensure and open internet.
If you actually support net neutrality and are not simply using the issue as a means to engender hate towards Trump and Republicans in general (I know, haters are going to hate), I am begging you to please read these so that we can all get behind legislation which actually fixes the issue.
ending net nutrality has created millions of jobs and angered the libs because it helps regular americans instead of crooked clinton foundation donors. i dont see a downside.
Until you, English-speakers, figure out your own rules for commas, I'm going to stick to the rules of Ukrainian, thank you very much. In particular, denoting a subordinate clause with comma(s) is a must...
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The tone of this Slashdot article is that Americans don't have three equal branches of government. Instead we have an unpopular administration, which is bullying an independent judiciary.