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FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules:
FCC defends repeal in court, claims broadband isn't "telecommunications."
The Federal Communications Commission opened its defense of its net neutrality repeal yesterday, telling a court that it has no authority to keep the net neutrality rules in place.
Chairman Ajit Pai's FCC argued that broadband is not a "telecommunications service" as defined in federal law, and therefore it must be classified as an information service instead. As an information service, broadband cannot be subject to common carrier regulations such as net neutrality rules, Pai's FCC said. The FCC is only allowed to impose common carrier regulations on telecommunications services.
"Given these classification decisions, the Commission determined that the Communications Act does not endow it with legal authority to retain the former conduct rules," the FCC said in a summary of its defense [pdf] filed yesterday in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The FCC is defending the net neutrality repeal against a lawsuit filed by more than 20 state attorneys general, consumer advocacy groups, and tech companies. The FCC's opponents in the case will file reply briefs next month, and oral arguments are scheduled for February.
Then why not let the states implement it?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @10:56AM (13 children)
Ajit Pai is the telecom's bitch. He was put in his office for the express purpose of making everything under the purview of the FCC more profitable for the telecoms. Ajit Pai's nomination to his current post is possibly the worst thing that Trump has done to this country. Pai's mission in life is to make tons of money, by whatever means, for his masters - nothing more, and nothing less. He'll be well rewarded when he leaves his current post.
Your points are all valid. The FCC can't have it both ways. If the FCC has no authority over the internet, then it has no authority to block the states from imposing their own rules on the internet. If the FCC has authority, then the FCC is derelict in it's duties.
Ajit Pai should be publicly executed for malfeasance, and Trump should be forced to watch, while being flogged. A little capital punishment for the president might help him to remember just who the hell elected his dumb ass. THEN he might actually do a good job.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @10:57AM (6 children)
A little CORPORAL punishment for the pres. You can't do a "little capital punishment", LOL
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday October 14 2018, @01:33PM (5 children)
If we can't scale up to GENERAL punishment, can we go to MAJOR punishment?
No? Come on, at least SERGEANT punishment, corporal is when you smack naughty kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @01:37PM (2 children)
For you - communist punishment. You'll be sent to your cell without bread and water.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @02:38PM (1 child)
I kicked your monkey then I used your goat.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @04:06PM
For the monkey, you get no bread. For the goat, you get no water. And, just for the fun of it, we're going to turn out the lights. We'll be back sometime next year to see if you want out.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 14 2018, @03:31PM (1 child)
Private punishment. Kick them in the goober.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday October 14 2018, @03:50PM
Yes... then use their goat [youtube.com] (SFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @11:48AM (1 child)
Not even joking here, go read up on Hindu caste systems and how skin color plays into it.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @12:10PM
No one cares. Take a look at the map. The FCC is for America, not anywhere else. Your bigotry is useless and unwelcome here. Now go eat your hot pocket before it gets cold. Your mom worked hard to heat it up for you.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday October 14 2018, @06:12PM (3 children)
... even if you're joking." -- Clint Eastwood, "Line Of Fire"
Back in the day some Kuron speculated about how he might get a certain Covered Person's head on a pike in his front yard. A few days later he was called to his manager's office, where two Secret Service agents asked him to explain himself.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @09:22PM
You've heard the term "credible threat", I presume. I haven't "threatened" the prez - I've stated what we SHOULD DO. Neither you nor I have the power nor the authority to put Pai on a scaffold for a public execution, nor do either of us have the power or authority to force the Trump to watch the execution, nor to flog him while he watches the execution. Any "threat" you read into my post is simply not credible.
I'm not worried about any SS showing up at my home, or at work, or anywhere else in my life.
And - if they did? I'd laugh at any dumbass who takes my post above seriously.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday October 15 2018, @07:06PM (1 child)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QEQOvyGbBtY
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 16 2018, @12:54AM
I puzzled over posting it to Facebook. While it would get lots of shares I don't want my death to be ruled a suicide
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]