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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 Thexalon on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:42PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:42PM (#742909)

    Between 1865 and approximately 1964, there was a quite conservative contingent of what were known as "southern Democrats" that were staunchly racist as all get-out. They had become Democrats mostly because what the Republicans stood for in the 1860's and 1870's was giving equal rights to the newly-freed slaves. By around 1910, the Democratic Party was an uneasy alliance between the fairly liberal union-backed northern Democrats and the quite conservative and racist southern Democrats. Woodrow Wilson really exemplifies this divide: He was fairly liberal on a lot of economic issues, but was also a staunch segregationist.

    By the end of the Franklin Roosevelt administration and his fairly anti-racist policies, the southern Democrats were seriously angry that they were losing ground to the northerners, and Strom Thurmond led a revolt in 1948 by running against Harry Truman as a "Dixiecrat". After that, the Democrats mostly tried to duck the issue, and in 1960 picked Lyndon Johnson as JFK's running mate specifically to try to bridge that divide. After JFK's assassination, Johnson proved he wasn't who the southern Democrats thought he was by signing the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act, and Thurmond and the southern Democrats again looked to bolt. The Republicans welcomed them into their party with open arms in 1964, and there they've mostly been ever since. The most notable Democratic holdouts were George Wallace and Robert Byrd, both of whom announced their change of views about racism in the 1970's.

    That's why I described it as a "conservative" position, not a "Republican" position. When it came to race relations, the positions of the 2 major US political parties flipped between 1960 and 1980. A lot of Republicans these days are now trying to pretend that the flip didn't happen, but it absolutely did, and you only need to listen to guys like Richard Spencer speak for a few minutes to know that.

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:39AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:39AM (#743261) Homepage Journal

    It flipped. And now it's flipped again, because of me. I am the least racist person you've ever seen in your entire life. I love Hispanic. And I have a great relationship with the blacks & Jews. First club in Palm Beach to allow blacks & Jews. The Establishment went NUTS when I did that!!!