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Eugene

(61,960 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:05 PM Mar 2015

Broadband providers sue FCC to stop net neutrality regulations

Source: Los Angeles Times

Broadband providers sued the Federal Communications Commission to try to stop tough new net neutrality regulations, the first step in an expected lengthy court fight over the online traffic rules.

US Telecom, a trade group whose membership includes AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., filed a petition Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The group wants the court to review the FCC's rules because they are "arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion" as well as a violation of existing law, according to the petition.

The regulations, passed by a 3-2 vote last month, are designed to ensure the uninhibited flow of Internet content. They prohibit broadband providers from blocking, slowing or selling faster delivery of legal content flowing through their networks to consumers.

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-net-neutrality-suit-fcc-20150323-story.html



By JIM PUZZANGHERA
MARCH 23, 2015 5:27 PM REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON
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Broadband providers sue FCC to stop net neutrality regulations (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2015 OP
fuck em! Pharaoh Mar 2015 #1
Fairness is 'capricious' and an abuse of discretion? MADem Mar 2015 #2
Those words stood out to me... IthinkThereforeIAM Mar 2015 #9
alas some are booley Mar 2015 #12
Let them eat static. nt Xipe Totec Mar 2015 #3
organized crime hates it when the victims fight back. nt msongs Mar 2015 #4
So I guess we can assume that the unfair practices blocked by net neutrality are exactly GoneFishin Mar 2015 #5
I would agree with that. Ed Suspicious Mar 2015 #6
Bingo BrotherIvan Mar 2015 #11
Well of course they did. blackspade Mar 2015 #7
I Might (?) could even give them a little break if they would stop.. BlueJazz Mar 2015 #8
Just a standard boilerplate "arbitrary and capricious" lawsuit. PSPS Mar 2015 #10
This action by US Telecom trade group should garner more asiliveandbreathe Mar 2015 #13
This is how capitalism erodes democracy fasttense Mar 2015 #14
To the Scaliamobile, Supremes! A corporate citizen has been inconvenienced! n/t Orsino Mar 2015 #15

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Fairness is 'capricious' and an abuse of discretion?
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:20 PM
Mar 2015

What, do they think people are stupid?

Fuck 'em, indeed!

booley

(3,855 posts)
12. alas some are
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 03:51 AM
Mar 2015

already had some of my conservative friends "warn" me of how net neutrality means the government will take over the internet and destroy innovation and freedom and apple pie or whatever. And these are educated people, some of whom are even small business owners who really should know better.


And have you seen some of the anti neutrality ads that have been going around?

As far as I can tell it's all based on the supposition that ANYTHING the government does is automatically bad.

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
5. So I guess we can assume that the unfair practices blocked by net neutrality are exactly
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:51 PM
Mar 2015

the same unfair practices which the telecomms intended to implement as soon as they saw the opportunity.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
8. I Might (?) could even give them a little break if they would stop..
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:02 AM
Mar 2015

...this bullshit of "300 hundred channels!!" (270 of them are crap, useless trash that very few people watch)

"Light bulb painting with Gertrude"

PSPS

(13,616 posts)
10. Just a standard boilerplate "arbitrary and capricious" lawsuit.
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 01:57 AM
Mar 2015

These used to be routinely thrown out. When a regulatory agency is involved, any of its regulation can be called "arbitrary and capricious" if it doesn't suit the entity being regulated.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
13. This action by US Telecom trade group should garner more
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 09:01 AM
Mar 2015

attention than it is getting..me - as a 30 year retiree of AT&T - I wouldn't do business with them - SBC bought the name - and brought their own values to the company - this is not your AT&T of old..we actually cared about the consumer..and employees were valued..

Any chance I get to talk to a T Mobil employee I mention how lucky they are the AT&T -T-Mobil merger didn't happen....

There are choices folk's - this is where you can hit them in the pocketbook....

 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
14. This is how capitalism erodes democracy
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:41 PM
Mar 2015

The majority of citizens in the US are in favor of tough net neutrality rules. The FCC acted on those concerns and a bunch of rich old men hiding behind their wealth and corporations are going to whatever it takes to stop the will of the people. What right do they have to hold up what the majority wants? This is NOT democracy. This is the inevitable oligarchy created by capitalism.

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