Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote

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• sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Biden’s original pick got jammed up in the Senate and finally withdrew their name from consideration. This wasn’t resolved until last September.

  www.politico.com/…/fcc-deadlock-vote-senate/

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Since September, Brendan Carr has been doing his best to stall and resist progress.

    docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397264A1.pdf

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    • sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Indeed.

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• isles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the “fourth year surge,” where 1st term presidents rush to get a lot of positive policy change so they look like they’re doing a good job. They tend to pass more legislation and use fewer executive orders during this time.

  Some of the policy that previous presidents are best known for were passed during this surge time, including Social Security, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Civil Rights Act, Federal Highway Aid Act, Equal Pay act, etc.

  Here, asking “why” is asking “what is their incentive”.

  There may be some merit to saying that a president is an entire branch of government and cycling out staff in key positions to get them in political alignment can take a lot of time. Biden’s admin has had to re-staff many departments after Trump.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the “fourth year surge,” where 1st term presidents rush to get a lot of positive policy change so they look like they’re doing a good job

    It’s literally not that at all. It was about the GOP gumming up the appointment process to the FCC board. Democratic party appointees have only had a 3-2 majority on the FCC board for about 6 months.

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    • isles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for the context in this specific case in response to my last paragraph.

      So you’re saying it could have been done 6 months ago but is only now being done in the 4th year of Biden’s term?

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      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not like they just sat around and did nothing for 6 months. The vote was scheduled almost a month ago, and there was a period to draft the rules, a period to accept comments and feedback, etc. Things were in motion behind the scenes, we’re just seeing the end result of the last 6 months.

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      • kwking13@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Clearly you don’t understand how slow things are in government. 6 months is a really fast turnaround for the government to get anything done.

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• Trollception@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because elections are coming up, why else?

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Username checks out

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