The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under former President Donald Trump, the agency’s chair said.
The FCC told advocates on Tuesday of the plan to vote on the final rule at its April 25 meeting.
So, iirc, net neutrality was originally a law, then it was struck down by the Supreme Court because “there’s enough competition in the marketplace that makes it unnecessary”, then the FCC under Obama tried to regulate it as a title 2 service, which got repealed by Ajit Pai (aka “A shit pie”), and now the FCC is trying to impose net neutrality again. Assuming my memory is correct, how certain are we that the Supreme Court won’t eventually turn around and rule against it?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’mma let you finish but I just need to get up here to say
fuck ajit pai
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arin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Didn’t Obama install ajit pai?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
Probably didn’t have a choice. I imagine the Republicans would’ve thrown a fit and blocked any other nomination.
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