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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 In a filing to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration said the question for the court was "whether the now-superseded 2015 order was invalid because it exceeded the FCC's statutory authority, was arbitrary and capricious, was promulgated without adequate public notice, or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."
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.
Trumpers are both unacquainted with reality and unencumbered by shame. Theirs is a world where a tan suit is outrageous but orphaned and sexually abused children are no biggie.
They filed an appeal to an ongoing court cause which they are a party to. This is bog-standard lawyering.
How does that have anything to do with dictatorship, or dictating anything?
At most, the Supreme Court might decide to take the appeal and dictate an opinion to give their results.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
The whole Trump is a Nazi thing is so played out. And yet there is no shortage of people willing to beat that drum. Obama started this tradition of ruling by decree instead of democratically, and yet we never heard a peep out of you then.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
For as much bitching and whining that republicans did, Obama actually signed fewer EO's than any other 8 year president going back to Ulysses Grant (1869-1877). On a yearly average, which is a better measure, Obama's average is less than any president since Grover Cleveland (1885-1889). Trump, on the other hand, is on pace to match in 4 years what it took Obama 8 years to sign.
And to be even more correct, a number of Obama's EO's were drafted and signed AFTER republicans told him to go ahead and do it to fix a problem because they couldn't, or wouldn't, fix them.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's