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President Trump's Supreme Court nominee argued last year that net neutrality rules violate the First Amendment rights of Internet service providers by preventing them from "exercising editorial control" over Internet content.
Trump's pick is Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The DC Circuit twice upheld the net neutrality rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission under former Chairman Tom Wheeler, despite Kavanaugh's dissent. (In another tech-related case, Kavanaugh ruled that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone metadata is legal.)
While current FCC Chairman Ajit Pai eliminated the net neutrality rules, Kavanaugh could help restrict the FCC's authority to regulate Internet providers as a member of the Supreme Court. Broadband industry lobby groups have continued to seek Supreme Court review of the legality of Wheeler's net neutrality rules even after Pai's repeal.
[...] Consumers generally expect ISPs to deliver Internet content in un-altered form. But Kavanaugh argued that ISPs are like cable TV operators—since cable TV companies can choose not to carry certain channels, Internet providers should be able to choose not to allow access to a certain website, he wrote.
"Internet service providers may not necessarily generate much content of their own, but they may decide what content they will transmit, just as cable operators decide what content they will transmit," Kavanaugh wrote. "Deciding whether and how to transmit ESPN and deciding whether and how to transmit ESPN.com are not meaningfully different for First Amendment purposes."
Kavanaugh's argument did not address the business differences between cable TV and Internet service.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 15 2018, @08:13AM (3 children)
You should all recognize the uptick of troll account posts. These fuckers are getting worried the rug will be pulled out from under them. Never forget! Never surrender!
These are some of the worst of humanity, and ust to be clear: TMB, jmorris, VLM, and runaway. Bunch of fascist fucks trying to get YOU to agree with their populist bullshit. Fascism is bad mmmkay?
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Sunday July 15 2018, @05:13PM
I mean, I'm a troll too, but my objective is to make you puke, or at least make it hard to eat.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 15 2018, @09:31PM (1 child)
I just read on the news last night that a famous member of the Clinton circle proposed an "enemies list" of names to purge and harass once they got into power again. And now here's another one on a smaller scale. Fascism is so in vogue for you little mini Hitlers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 15 2018, @11:22PM
Ah yes, the ol' projection routine again with a mix of attempted insult reversal. Classic.
I'm no Clinton fan so that little tie in falls flat. Did I mention purging? Is there something inherently evil about listing off names? Someone better tell every school in the world! The snowflake syndrome is strong with you nutters.
If people don't want to be called out for pushing fascist agendas and generally being horrible users then maybe they shouldn't do those things? I know, tough to use that critical thinking and self-reflection.