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

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

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> 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) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> 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) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> 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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