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Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules

posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 21 2018, @01:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-not-over-until-the-fat-lady-sings dept.

chromas (from IRC) writes:

From Reuters:

A group of 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia late Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to reinstate the Obama administration's 2015 landmark net neutrality rules and reject the Trump administration's efforts to preempt states from imposing their own rules guaranteeing an open internet.

The states, led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, filed a lawsuit in January after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in December along party lines to reverse rules that barred internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic or offering paid fast lanes, also known as paid prioritization.

Several internet companies filed a separate legal challenge on Monday to overturn the FCC ruling, including Mozilla Corp, Vimeo Inc, Etsy Inc, and numerous media and technology advocacy groups.

The FCC handed sweeping new powers to internet providers to recast how Americans use the internet — as long as they disclose any changes. The new rules took effect in early June but major providers have made no changes in internet access.

[...] The U.S. Senate voted in May to keep the Obama-era internet rules, but the measure is unlikely to be approved by the House of Representatives or the White House.

The state attorney generals suing represent states with 165 million people — more than half the United States population — and include California, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:12PM (24 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:12PM (#724199) Journal

    "Soylent FastTroll Service"

    Oh, I'm sick of fast trolling.
    For goodness sake, people, take your time and come with a well made, in a good taste, slow trolling.

    (Alternatively, at least once in a while and even if only for variety, you could accept an aristarchus submission)

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Subsentient on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:19PM (3 children)

    by Subsentient (1111) on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:19PM (#724205) Homepage Journal

    Challenge accepted.

    Flip grandpa over so he is on his hands and knees. Fist his hungry asshole, until his dentures fall out and his Coumadin-thinned rectal blood covers your hands as he moans in pleasure. Remove your fist. Lick the shit from your fist. Lick it clean.
    Savor the texture, the taste, the aroma.

    Now, insert your throbbing, aching cock into grandpa's love canal, thrusting over and over, hunched over him, reaching under him to twist his nipples as hard as you can. As you cum, pinch them as hard as you can, not being afraid to let your thumbnails cut into them. After you've completed shooting pulse after pulse of baby batter into grandpa's fuck hole, remove your cock.

    Now duck down, so your mouth is at his anus. Inhale deeply, savoring the scent. Now press your lips to his asshole, and suck. Suck for dear life. Suck, while his diarrhea mixed with your own seed spills out of his trembling hole and into your waiting mouth, back into your body. Back from where it came.

    Roll it around inside your mouth for a few seconds with your tongue, making sure to taste all there is to taste.

    Swallow.

    Now it's time to reward him.

    Go find some peanut butter, the chunky kind. Lather your grandfather's testicles in the creamy substance. Once his balls are glistening with the oily treat, now move to his anus. Cover your fist in the peanut butter, thick, so much that globs fall onto the floor.

    Now insert your fist into his waiting ass, slowly, making sure to savor the sensation of his intestines squirming around your hand. Remove your hand. Smear the remainder of the feces-saturated peanut butter around his anal rim.

    Call your dog. Tell grandpa to hold still.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:33PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:33PM (#724219)

      Well, fuck off if you call this "in good taste".

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by deimtee on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:18PM

        by deimtee (3272) on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:18PM (#724385) Journal

        You don't like peanut butter?

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      • (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:26AM

        by Subsentient (1111) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:26AM (#724485) Homepage Journal

        Oh, it has plenty of tastes.

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  • (Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:31PM (3 children)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:31PM (#724217) Homepage Journal

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7oEYe4ePc [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:56PM (15 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:56PM (#724232) Journal

    Don't side with aristarchus. His preferred submission is vapid political garbage, filled with flamebait. We don't need that shitty flavor for variety. Since he won't put it in a journal because he wants to make a "point", it's his own fault if he can't get his "message" out. Finally, spamming unrelated articles to bitch about it is the worst thing ever, unless you love to see good stories get derailed. And yes, even zero comments is preferable to one stupid aristarchus comment. The personal attacks against janrinok are also rubbish.

    Given that the editors have no obligation to publish any particular submission, the temper tantrums and bad behavior are not helping. We'll just delete his submissions faster, until he submits something publishable. Many tech and science stories have a political angle, or a Thiel behind the wheel. Out of stories that aren't tech or science related, many can still be interesting [nytimes.com] or relevant [go.com].

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @04:35PM (7 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 21 2018, @04:35PM (#724248) Journal

      Don't side with aristarchus.

      Allow me to note this has a good potential to sound authoritative. Borderline authoritarian.
      Did you intended that way (with an "... or else" almost implied)?

      We don't need that shitty flavor for variety.

      Hang on a bit, is there something like "our need" when it comes to S/N?
      I can agree with "my need", "ethanol-fueled's need", "VIM A/C's need", but I'm not sure those needs has more overlapping than the simple "post comments in S/N forum". Do they?

      Please note that I intended all the requests for clarifications above in the general/meta context, outside of "aristarchus submissions" one.

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:08PM (6 children)

        by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:08PM (#724265) Journal

        Did you intended that way (with an "... or else" almost implied)?

        It's an appeal, not a demand.

        Hang on a bit, is there something like "our need" when it comes to S/N?

        We need to post submissions of a certain quality, or the userbase will gradually evaporate and the site will die. Alt-right fun hour may be an entertaining variety to you, but it's not a healthy one. We've seen plenty of people leave due to excessive political stories in the past.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:12PM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:12PM (#724289)

          That is not how you write an appeal. Your posts definitely have an authoritarian streak to them, but I can't really refute the excessive political stories complaint.

          • (Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:17PM (4 children)

            by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:17PM (#724290) Journal

            Guess I'll have to practice by writing more demands. I mean appeals.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:38PM (3 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:38PM (#724303)

              Guess I'll have to practice by writing more demands. I mean appeals.

              May I appeal to you do so?
              Please, set aside some time for practice.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @07:16PM (2 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @07:16PM (#724320)

                Some people have trouble being subservient even for politeness. Many are taught to be the bullshitting confident types who tell people to lead, follow, or get out of the way.

                It is a problem, everyone trying to act like the silverback alpha when in reality few qualify for boy scout troop leader. Usually the loudest most demanding types are the least deserving.

                • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:27AM

                  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:27AM (#724486) Journal

                  Silverback alpha chad goes buuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrp.

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                • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:32AM

                  by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:32AM (#724487) Journal

                  Watch some movies placed in the British Victorian era, you'll notice many masters asking servants using something on the line of "Can you bring some..., please?" Was it any chance the master sound subservient?
                  Of course the servant was expected the s/he actually could so there was actually no choice given.

                  Nowadays equiv - if your manager asks you 'can you fix up your shit, please?', will be sound up subservient or menacing?

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @04:54PM (5 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 21 2018, @04:54PM (#724259) Journal

      Listen, is 3AM around here and tomorrow I have enough to work, so I might not be able to stay onto this thread as much as I like (or need?)

      Maybe you should ponder on the "provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion" bit.
      Especially since you replied to a small print remark in the footnote of a comment asking for "take your time and come with a well made, in a good taste, slow trolling".

      Or would you prefer a "whoosh" instead?

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      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:18PM (4 children)

        by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:18PM (#724275) Journal

        Especially since you replied to a small print remark in the footnote of a comment asking for "take your time and come with a well made, in a good taste, slow trolling".

        I'd rather offer a superfluous explanation than allow any sympathy to be misplaced, as it has been in the past.

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        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:55PM (3 children)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:55PM (#724281) Journal

          My apologies. I'll grin next time.
          No hard feelings, Ok?

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          • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:12PM (2 children)

            by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:12PM (#724288) Journal

            Get some sleep!

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            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:22PM (1 child)

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:22PM (#724293) Journal

              · [xkcd.com]

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              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @01:07PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @01:07PM (#724637)

                Ha! I had 386 printed on fridge magnets and gave several of them to friends.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:01PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:01PM (#724260) Journal

      I think takyon just got slow-trolled!