https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/why-ajit-pai-might-fail-in-quest-to-block-state-net-neutrality-laws/
"The FCC's repeal order agrees with an AT&T argument that Congress, in Section
230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, confirmed that 'Internet access
should be classified as an unregulated information service' under Title I of
the Communications Act. It's clear that 'Congress did not intend the Commission
to subject broadband Internet access service to Title II [common carrier]
regulation,' the FCC also said."
That's a lie, of course, and anyone is free to read the telecom act of 1996 to
prove this to themselves. This is the lie that Chairman Pai keeps trying to
spread, and all the faithful yahoos, as always unable to think for themselves,
parrot it religiously. That classification was of the FCC's own doing, in 2002,
when many lawyers were profoundly clueless still, about the nature of the
Internet. In fact, I already quoted the nonsensical gobbled-gook the FCC used,
back then, to make its case. And even then, at least those Chairmen did attempt
to mandate neutrality, in spite of having handicapped themselves, in various
court cases.
"The FCC says it can preempt state net neutrality laws because broadband is an
interstate service (in that Internet transmissions cross state lines) and
because state net neutrality rules would subvert the federal policy of
non-regulation."
Just the kind of twisted, back-asswards thinking that only lawyers could
indulge in, and of course, the special interests that stand to gain from it.
*Obviously*, it is precisely because telecom service is used for interstate
commerce, that neutrality is required, and mandated. How absurd is it to argue
that it is in the interest of interstate commerce that your local ISP can block
or degrade whatever web sites they don't like?
If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, chances are, it's a duck.
This FCC Chairman is a crook. He needs to be ousted. Fortunately, it could be
just his head-long dash to deregulate everything that could turn around and
bite him on the *ss. Good deal!
Bert
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