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highplainsdem

(55,159 posts)
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 04:27 PM Jan 2025

Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Appeals Court

Source: NYT

A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s landmark net neutrality rules on Thursday, ending a nearly two-decade effort to regulate broadband internet providers like utilities.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, said that the F.C.C. lacked the authority to reinstate rules that prevented broadband providers from slowing or blocking access to internet content. The decision put an end to the Biden administration’s hallmark tech policy, which had drawn impassioned support from consumer groups and tech giants like Google and fierce protests by telecommunications giants like Comcast and AT&T.

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The F.C.C. had voted in April to restore net neutrality regulations, which expand government oversight of broadband providers and aim to protect consumer access to the internet, a move that will reignite a long-running battle over the open internet.

The regulations were first put in place nearly a decade ago under the Obama administration and are aimed at preventing internet service providers like Verizon or Comcast from blocking or degrading the delivery of services from competitors like Netflix and YouTube. The rules were repealed under President Donald J. Trump, and they have proved to be a contentious partisan issue over the years while pitting tech giants against broadband providers.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/technology/net-neutrality-rules-fcc.html

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Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Appeals Court (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2025 OP
Everything tsf does is to hurt the working class/poor and help the olgarchs - the total asshole that he is! lark Jan 2025 #1
So, online vs TV, and TV won? lindysalsagal Jan 2025 #2
the rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor - L. Cohen msongs Jan 2025 #3
Wait... GB_RN Jan 2025 #4
Nailed it. orangecrush Jan 2025 #7
No. Igel Jan 2025 #9
Think You Misunderstood Me. GB_RN Jan 2025 #10
outcome Snoopy 7 Jan 3 #12
just saw this Snoopy 7 Jan 3 #13
I wonder if Sammy and Clarance are gonna like watching a pixilated inauguration.... 3Hotdogs Jan 2025 #5
Kiss free speech goodbye orangecrush Jan 2025 #6
We haven't had net neutrality for over four years Jose Garcia Jan 3 #14
All money and power flows to our oligarch overlords. Here's a shit sandwich for the plebes... jvill Jan 2025 #8
*An Announcement From Your ISP* LudwigPastorius Jan 2025 #11

lark

(24,776 posts)
1. Everything tsf does is to hurt the working class/poor and help the olgarchs - the total asshole that he is!
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 04:39 PM
Jan 2025

I could not hate any person more than I do him!!!

lindysalsagal

(22,564 posts)
2. So, online vs TV, and TV won?
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 04:47 PM
Jan 2025

I worry about what else this could mean, like, allowing so much disinformation to appear to be reliable.

GB_RN

(3,324 posts)
4. Wait...
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 05:42 PM
Jan 2025

Let me get this straight. Because these rules were ditched by Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent’s FCC chair, Ajit “Idgit” Pai, the FCC doesn’t have the power to reinstate those same rules? The very same rules that the agency implemented over 10 years ago?

What. The….?

Igel

(36,665 posts)
9. No.
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 07:25 PM
Jan 2025

From the OP:

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.


Nothing to do with Trump's FCC. His FCC was a side comment. They could have equally well said "discussions" or "decision-making in this regard."

GB_RN

(3,324 posts)
10. Think You Misunderstood Me.
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 09:08 PM
Jan 2025

I was adding in the history of the rules for context, not claiming that Caligula’s FCC had any direct impact here. To reiterate: Obama’s FCC initiated the rules. Cantaloupe Caligula’s FCC killed the rules, and Biden’s tried to bring them back. Then, this court said the FCC can’t deal with their own rules. That’s what I find astounding. Stupidly so.

Snoopy 7

(633 posts)
12. outcome
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 08:00 AM
Jan 3

By overturning Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo the SC was saying that only they make the rules. They overturned a law that said the FCC doesn't have the power to regulate the rules that were passes. The supreme court wants all the power and all the agentcies are not to think they can do what ever is right without the SC telling you what is right. It doesn't matter that the SC will overturn what ever their owners want, they are the last word. This SC doesn't believe in the separations of power in the Government. The SC wants to be the judge, jury and executioner/Judiciary, Legislative & Executive..

3Hotdogs

(14,043 posts)
5. I wonder if Sammy and Clarance are gonna like watching a pixilated inauguration....
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 06:46 PM
Jan 2025

or Lawrence Welk reruns in slow motion.

 

jvill

(459 posts)
8. All money and power flows to our oligarch overlords. Here's a shit sandwich for the plebes...
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 07:15 PM
Jan 2025

LudwigPastorius

(12,033 posts)
11. *An Announcement From Your ISP*
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