Amazing how much the US judiciary branch seems to hate the plebs.
Republicans have spent the last 40 years purchasing the entire system, obviously it works for them. They're the ones that paid for it.
Note that it piggybacks on the SCROTUS decision earlier about preventing government from protecting anything from industry.
at least we got actual consumer protection under biden’s FTC’s lawsuits and stuff…
edit: FTC, not FCC
They will be promptly rolled back under President Musk
We are losing big time with each successive administration since Congress will never legislate in favour of the working class.
Relying on regulatory agencies for customer protection just creates endless opportunity for corpos to challenge anything favourable to the peasants.
God our government is so fucking useless for anything that might actually help people.
This isn't "our government" these are the oligarch's meatbags purchased for surprisingly low dollar amounts. These men (and women that silently stand next to them until they are told they are allowed to speak) are cowards and traitors. They are not "our government"
Your post is the right energy, wrong message.
Corrupt beyond belief.
It's by design: the rich know how easily "representatives" can be bought.
It's currently not fill with people who want to help "prople". It currently is setup to help corporate America only at this point. At the expense of your rights.
this is a direct consequence of the Supreme Court overturning the Chevron deference back in June. the appeals court has to apply the law. so you know who to blame.
expect more cases like this in coming years...
If the FCC can't regulate anything I guess I'll just run a high power jammer and block all cell signal in the area.
Wait! You will get in trouble for that. Instead you need to have an LLC that does that for Profit somehow. Then all is forgiven!
Their excuse is that telecom services aren’t actually providing telecom services, but information services.
If that doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because you aren’t brain-damaged.
Courted reclassified the services to remove FCC ability to regulate telecos?
Talk about bad faith behavior.
All laws protecting the people's interests are now banned. Don't like it? Well become a billionaire and maybe the supreme Court will care
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social
I mean, this is a terrible (if unsurprising) decision, but I'm left wondering how Brendan Carr is going to still try to claim regulatory authority over social media companies...
There is no possible consistency between "ISPs can throttle and block, but edge services cannot..." nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social
2h
Sixth Circuit decision striking down net neutrality doesn’t even remotely pass the sniff test lol www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
January 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lerv476tes22
comes a time when blue states just need to draw the line and flat out refuse to follow federal laws and judges until federal judges stop being corrupt.
They do it for marijuana laws but won’t treat anything else like that. I don’t understand.
Money.
Lots of potential tax revenue with cannabis.
You say "secede" funny.
They're going to use this for censorship.
But they'll call it freedom of speech. Speech someone/corp paid for of course, but Citizens United...
Torproject.org. There's absolutely no way to censor the entire internet, short of entirely disconnecting the internet.
long-winded sigh
I really ought to set up that community meshnet I keep thinking about setting up...
I really ought to set up that community meshnet I keep thinking about setting up...
Oh hey, I keep thinking about doing this to and hosting a website like the old days lol, but when I search about it the biggest thing that comes up is like LoRa, but ig it's too slow for hosting internet-like services
Is this really shocking with the incoming sadministration?
That's not a typo.
In its opinion, a three-judge panel pointed to a Supreme Court decision in June, known as Loper Bright, that overturned a 1984 legal precedent that gave deference to government agencies on regulations.
“Applying Loper Bright means we can end the F.C.C.’s vacillations,” the court ruled.
"Nyyeaahh nyyeaah nyyeaaaahh ppffthhhhthhth!!" they said.
Like most large changes, it requires an act of Congress. Doing these via the executive leads to weak outcomes like this.
The thing is Congress doesn't have time to deal with technical details. That's why they passed a law authorizing the FCC to make exactly this kind of regulation. The conservative courts throwing everything they don't like under the Major Questions Doctrine is just a way to make sure regulation never happens and Corporations are free to exploit people however they want. The problem here isn't the FCC, it's bad faith judges with the power to stop the entire government.
tbf it's not hard to convince hayseed chucklefuck trumplings that regulations which exist to protect them are a bad thing because they cost money. we had condo buildings collapsing and people dying WITH regulations.
when bridges start collapsing left and right, they'll blame drag queens and the maga trumpistan patriots will lap it up like hogs at the trough
This is ridiculous how difficult it is to get this law through. Clearly it must be something good. I am 100% behind it.
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