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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.
Democrats passed ACA and removed student loans from being discharged in BK court.
Both parties actively fight against working class.
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 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…
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.
You know, in Germany there are some (we call them Reichsbürger ~ Empire Citizens) that believe the allied installed a puppet government in Germany and we are actually a GmbH (equivalent to US LLCs according to Wikipedia) called the Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH and a kind of proof should be that are ID cards are called “Personalausweis” which could be taken as Personal (eng. Employee) and Ausweis (eng. Identification).
The US basically does all of the Corpo things those conspiracy nuts see into the German government.
From the BS corp politics down to the office rumors.
Sounds a lot like American sovereign citizens. SovCits believe America is a corporation that was set up on top of the Articles of Confederation, (which was the precursor to the American Constitution). They basically believe that they can refuse to do business with the “corporation” (government) and be able to break any laws that aren’t written in the Articles of Confederation.
It’s where the “I’m not driving, I’m traveling” memes come from, because the articles of confederation mentioned a right to freely travel. So the SovCits think they can drive without a valid license or vehicle registration, which leads to lots of police dashcam footage of SovCits getting tased during traffic stops when they become irate or try to flee.
God our government is so fucking useless for anything that might actually help people.
More specifically: gop.gov
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.
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
Can you please explain what this means? I’m not sure I understand correctly.
Trump wants to weaponise the FCC to go against social media companies who “ban free speech” or whatever, just like Elon complained about before buying Twitter, and like all other right wingers are so mad about. But if the FCC doesn’t have any authority to regulate ISPs, why should it have authority to regulate social media companies. Not that the courts seem to care about precedent anymore, but that’s the silver lining they are looking for.
It means that folks are still expecting logic and consistency out of US lawmakers.
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!
Ah but technically it’s still illegal to disrupt emergency services and also leaves you liable to lawsuits.
But yeah, the FCC in particular can’t stop you from doing that.
Ahh, but you can subscribe to my private emergency services on my own frequencies which aren’t blocked, then nobody can block mine because they are the only available emergency service frequency.
The word used is “Disrupt” which implies you cannot impede access to them even if you offer an alternative method.
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.
