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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, @08:57PM
That's coming very quickly. Bread and circuses is actually dying, along with our economy. What happens when the entire fast food industry moves towards automation? Those slave wagers, already taking state benefits, will swell the numbers of homeless people. There's a point I'm making with that, because a man in our neighborhood has fucking lost it over homeless people. Right next to his property he has major issues keeping homeless people from attempting to bivouac in the open property behind him. He's rented back hoes, invested thousands in strong metal fencing, and has engaged in a futile attempt to place obstacles to the homeless around him.
He's not happy. There are no bread and circuses at this guy's joint, that is quickly turning into a barbed wire, closed circuit surveillance, no trespassing, ill-fucking-shoot-you-if-step-on-my-lawn happy town.
The stresses and pressures are quickly overtaking people's ability for peaceful enjoyment, whether or not they still have the means to do so. I must stress, I'm in a very nice area of the country situated next to Silicon Valley. You would think we wouldn't suffer from this, but it's very clear that the service worker demographic in Northern California is tanking, and nobody gives a fuck.
No. A revolution will result in the 99% killing of much of the 1%, specifically that part that doesn't escape to another country. What sides are there going to be in the revolution again? White conservative nationalists against liberal minorities? I'm sure that fits some narrative for a race war, but the truth is the most hated and visible opponents are law enforcement and the 1%.
We've already seen the beginnings of it. Angry black men with military training becoming so convinced the only path to safety is killing the enemy. In this case, the enemy is law enforcement killing innocent unarmed, and predominately, black males. That's super hard to argue with, because that is exactly what the media portrays constantly. On both sides of the Republican and Democratic parties you have hordes of angry pissed off people convinced that the 1% are the problem, and that their party brings the solutions against them.
The numbers [prisonpolicy.org] are staggering. 2.3 million people locked up, at costs [vera.org] that are quite sobering.
At the averaged cost, that is ~$71 billion dollars per year. The actual number of all 50 states is higher, and those numbers are 2012 numbers. For each and every single one of those 2.3 million people, they contributed nothing to GDP and the tax base, and in fact, only contribute to private prison profits. Those profits come back in the form of taxes? Depends on what corporate inversions are occurring, and just how low the adjusted tax rate actually is. In any case, slave labor isn't subject to OSHA or the Federal Minimum wage laws.
Were the fucking 99% dude. Let's see them scale up the prisons that fast, let's see them deal with the collapse of the economy, and let's see them continue to make the rest of the middle-heading-to-poor class pay to house all of their friends and relatives fighting the good fight. Putting everyone in prison only works when you can afford it, and who is going to pay up that much money?
You know what a prisoner is afraid of when escaping prison? Going back to prison put simply enough, and that is fear based on the rest of the people outside of prison. So what happens when you have a prison of 10,000 Americans held of political activism (excuse me, revolution) and they realize that they fantastically outnumber the guards, and not everyone outside of prison agrees that a new prison should be built to house them at all. That's because those 10,000 people can actually tear the prison down and render it unusable in a matter of hours without the national guard moving in to pacify them lickety-split. How many former national guard members and trained ex-paramilitary might be in there too?
No, dude. You can't imprison a revolution. Not at this scale.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.