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posted by takyon on Tuesday October 02 2018, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the net-balk dept.

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The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law

The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net neutrality law ever enacted in the United States, setting up a high-stakes legal showdown over the future of the Internet.

California on Sunday became the largest state to adopt its own rules requiring Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to treat all web traffic equally. Golden State legislators took the step of writing their law after the Federal Communications Commission scrapped nationwide protections last year, citing the regulatory burdens they had caused for the telecom industry.

Mere hours after California's proposal became law, however, senior Justice Department officials told The Washington Post they would take the state to court on grounds that the federal government, not state leaders, has the exclusive power to regulate net neutrality. DOJ officials stressed the FCC had been granted such authority from Congress to ensure that all 50 states don't seek to write their own, potentially conflicting, rules governing the web.

Also at Ars Technica, TechDirt, and Politico.

Previously: California Gov. Signs Nation’s Strictest Net Neutrality Rules Into Law


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:04PM (9 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:04PM (#742815) Journal

    You want free market?
    1. stop giving taxpayer money to corporation to build the network to the tune of $5billon/year [wired.com]
    2. abolish the right-of-way and allow everybody and their dog (community network included) to hang or bury whatever wires they want to deliver internet to whoever asks for it.

    Without these two, you are not in a "market action" situation.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:17PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:17PM (#742821)

    That would give the Mesh network people a lot more incentive to push their tech, because they wouldn't be fighting the coercive power of government. They'd just have to win minds.

    I'd like to see people set up a much more decentralized, reactionary, amorphous, much more local-point-to-local-point Internet; it might be a lot slower, but it will be a lot more resilient.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:02PM (#742923)

      This is true. Until we can eliminate the ISP, the internet is up against a brick wall. There is no redundancy when you can be cut off by any authority so easily.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:27PM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:27PM (#743128) Homepage Journal

      I plan to set up Tor Hidden Services for all my sites.

      While Tor can be slow as molasses, it is exceedingly difficult to censor it. Censorship of the Internet by repressive regimes is a far far more serious problem than spanking your monkey to Penthouse Television.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:34PM (4 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:34PM (#742895) Journal

    2. abolish the right-of-way and allow everybody and their dog (community network included) to hang or bury whatever wires they want to deliver internet to whoever asks for it.

    Including on other people's private property! Keep in mind that right-of-way is what allowed people to dig up my lawn to run that fiber in the first place.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:41PM (3 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:41PM (#742907) Journal

      You're still whining that the cable crew kill all three crabgrass plants in your yard? FFS, man, get over it!

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:51PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:51PM (#742962) Journal

        No, I'm pointing out that if you de-regulate something that can only exist due to regulation you're going to have a bad time.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:48PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:48PM (#743055)

        That's very insensitive. Plants have feelings too you know!

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:25PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:25PM (#743125) Homepage Journal

    This is from high school history in 1981 so I don't remember the details.

    There was a time when all long-distance oil transport was done by rail, because the railway companies refused to sell right of way to the pipeline companies. At the time train transport was far more common than it is today, so a pipeline could never get very far.

    But somehow a pipeline company managed to purchase a very short section of railway. They pulled up a couple lengths of track, dug a trench, buried their pipeline and replaced the rail in less than a day.

    Apparently that all by itself led to pipelines taking over as the leading method for oil transport.

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