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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
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:12PM (3 children)
Sorry, but I'm not sold on this "Natural monopoly" bullshit.
For one thing, "The startup costs are a barrier to entry" is not enough to warrant special treatment.
Actually, now that I think about it, that's the irrational foundation of ALL leftist thinking:
It costs so much to keep living, the government ought to treat me specially; the government ought to pay for everything I need or even want, and the government should tell us how to live and what to say, and (damnit!) what to think!
My ego is so fragile that it needs to be handled with care; the government ought to enforce a safe space for me.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:22PM (2 children)
Running a high throughput strawman operation here, I see. Is it profitable?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:39PM (1 child)
I'm guessing it gives you high bloodpressure. Believing that much in the free-from-government market (or anything else) can't be healthy.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday October 03 2018, @12:34AM
The start-up costs to build competing strawman argument are just too damn high. Thus making the opposition's point, I guess.