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Corrupt beyond belief.

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.

God our government is so fucking useless for anything that might actually help people.

More specifically: gop.gov

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!

Put hundreds of them in a pretty boxes, form an LLC, get a few VCs to sign on, flip the switch, then charge a monthly fee to "open previously-inacessible service areas to cellular customers" and you'll have a successful startup!

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.

Hold on, GumpyDuckling... checks clipboard tsk tsk, I see here you're not wealthy enough to effectively lobby to get us in trouble; I'm afraid that'll be a $10,000 fine.

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.

Courted reclassified the services to remove FCC ability to regulate telecos?

Talk about bad faith behavior.

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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

Torproject.org. There's absolutely no way to censor the entire internet, short of entirely disconnecting the internet.

But they'll call it freedom of speech. Speech someone/corp paid for of course, but Citizens United...

They do it for marijuana laws but won’t treat anything else like that. I don’t understand.

You say "secede" funny.

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

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.