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The Register has a story about a court ruling that possibly puts one nail in the coffin of the attempt by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to prevent states from banning municipal ISPs.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said on Wednesday [PDF] that the American regulator lacks the authority to overrule state laws that prevent cities from operating their own ISPs.
Last year, the watchdog declared it was unfair of North Carolina and Tennessee to block community-run broadband. Now an appeals court has said the FCC overstepped the mark by trying to undo that block with a preemptive order. In other words, in this case, the US states can't be pushed around and overruled by the communications regulator as it lacks the clear authority to do so.
"This preemption by the FCC of the allocation of power between a state and its subdivisions requires at least a clear statement in the authorizing federal legislation," the judges noted.
"The FCC relies upon S706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 for the authority to preempt in this case, but that statute falls far short of such a clear statement. The preemption order must accordingly be reversed."
We obviously have not seen the last of this, especially since the amateur lawyer in me believes the court decision was in error.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday August 12 2016, @12:22AM
I'm right there with you, for all the same reasons. I don't want violence... but it's the only future we have. One of great bloodshed, everywhere.
For no other reason than people can no longer survive off a day's work. We both know the simple reasons why the bloodshed will occur; Food, shelter, entertainment.
It was 10 fucking dollars for string cheese last night; Fuck that noise. A modest amount of fruit, that you may have found a restaurant plate 10 years ago, is now $8.99. More than the entire meal about 10 years ago. Rents in my area are up 40% in the last few years, while wages have stagnated. Disposable income has all but disappeared with people choosing between power bills, rent, OR food. The days of being able to assume you could pay all of your bills has long since past for too much of the middle class of America, and those worse off, are more materially deprived than ever. Forget about entertainment and vacations. Stay at home and leech whatever entertainment you can, for free, off the Internet. Going out for fun would require a second job and 8 more hours added to the day.
The lies sold by the prick Obama and DipshitCare, have only resulted in the contraction of businesses, practices, and donated healthcare they USED to provide. Everyone drank the koolaid that DipshitCare must have fixed everything, but it never did. The people that were going without, are still going without, and this time with far less resources in their communities to help them. Homeless populations are growing faster than job markets. Those that depended on "handouts" from the state certainly never saw the money increase, while they've experienced drastic inflation from their perspective. Many people on disability receive less than half of a full time minimum wage job, and as a result live homeless using the money for the barest of essentials.
People that were depending on the government to actually help them, and the people who voted for the programs to help them, have been betrayed. That money was siphoned off by corruption, excuse me, managed health care, and those people are not going to get better and back on their feet while being homeless. Yet this is our world; Our great fears expressed everyday - TO BE FORGOTTEN BY SOCIETY AND PRESSED INTO A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO GET BETTER WHILE BEING REVILED AS A LAZY WORTHLESS PERSON.
To say that Panem Et Circenses is broken, is an understatement. Combine that with:
- brain drain and the generally poor state of education, of which is unavoidable due to the.....
- lack of protein in 1/5 children's brains
- Ever increasing income inequality with 63 people holding over %90 of the wealth
Anybody with a brain can see that is a recipe for bloody, bloody, b l o o d y, revolution. Anybody with a brain can see that politics has been wholly hijacked, and indeed, both political parties show clears signs of corruption during election times, and pretty much any ol' time. Corporations rule through "transparent & impartial" orgs like ALEC that helpfully supply our politicians with laws to be passed.
Everything is broken, corrupt, and sliding into a literal fetid misery of pain and despair (homeless people have to go to bathroom somewhere... so in public).
All of this creates the tinder everywhere on the forest floor so to speak. All it takes is one good man to break, start himself on fire, and establish the American Spring. Revolution here we come. Neither of us are treasonous, neither of us seek violence. Yet the future is one of violence dictated by our intellects and differing experiences. We should start selling t-shirts. At least then we can afford some beer to watch the world burn around us.
"The world is burning!
.....
But I got beer and TV, no worries"
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.