Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
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Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#2The system seems broken when states representing more than 50% of the population have to sue in court to try to change something like this. Instead with that much backing it should be done through the legislative branch. I'm concerned about the growing use of courts to try to decide policies because our legislative bodies can't work together and instead just try to force one sided issues through or block each other.
> Together, the AGs represent states totaling 165 million people — more than half of the U.S. population.
Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#3The system seems broken when states representing more than 50% of the population have to sue in court to try to change something like this. Instead with that much backing it should be done through the legislative branch. I'm concerned about the growing use of courts to try to decide policies because our legislative bodies can't work together and instead just try to force one sided issues through or block each other.…
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Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#4One thing I don’t understand is why states do not enact their own net neutrality legislation. As far as I know every state has a public utilities commission of some sort that regulates power, water, etc. Why could this not work for ISPs?
Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#5One thing I don’t understand is why states do not enact their own net neutrality legislation. As far as I know every state has a public utilities commission of some sort that regulates power, water, etc. Why could this not work for ISPs?
I think the FCC is trying to remove that ability from States now because federal law overrules state law.
> The Attorneys General are hardly alone on this one. As Reuters notes, Mozilla, Vimeo and Etsy also joined forces today to file a legal challenge, while governors in six states have signed executive orders and three states have passed their own net neutrality laws.
Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#6One thing I don’t understand is why states do not enact their own net neutrality legislation. As far as I know every state has a public utilities commission of some sort that regulates power, water, etc. Why could this not work for ISPs?
Some places are trying to. America trusted corporations to have public interests in mind for too long.
Additionally, the federal government is attempting to censure states and municipalities which are doing so. When the federal government is in regulatory capture, the will of the people is immaterial.
Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#7One thing I don’t understand is why states do not enact their own net neutrality legislation. As far as I know every state has a public utilities commission of some sort that regulates power, water, etc. Why could this not work for ISPs?
Is the current situation (lack of net neutrality) simply the lack of a law or is it a law or regulation? If the former, the states can enact their own net neutrality legislation. However, if the latter, the federal law or regulation takes precedence and the states cannot override it.
Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#8The system seems broken when states representing more than 50% of the population have to sue in court to try to change something like this. Instead with that much backing it should be done through the legislative branch. I'm concerned about the growing use of courts to try to decide policies because our legislative bodies can't work together and instead just try to force one sided issues through or block each other.…
The House of Representatives majority, which is held by the GOP and is anti - net neutrality, also represents more than 50% of the US population by this method of counting (which says the state AGs “represent” people who didn’t vote for them).
Under the constitutional system of the US something like net neutrality could be passed as a law by the congress, but there hasn’t been a congress that chose to do so.
Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#9One thing I don’t understand is why states do not enact their own net neutrality legislation. As far as I know every state has a public utilities commission of some sort that regulates power, water, etc. Why could this not work for ISPs?
> One thing I don’t understand is why states do not enact their own net neutrality legislation.
I'm not from the States, but my guess is that they want it to be enforceable at the federal level. At state level, the ISP could theoretically lodge a compliant at a federal court and as per the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, the federal law, (no net neutrality), is extremely likely to win over state law.
Re: Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
#10To hell with it.
I want to know what SLAs I can get and the price for each.
One size fits all = crappy service for all (or higher prices for non-power users)
Delusional middle class busybodies are still trying to make the poor subsidize their Netflix and other high bandwidth habits.