Posted on May 2, 2018
California net neutrality bill that AT&T hates is coming to New York, too
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It's relatively easy to buy off the FCC, buying off individual state legislatures is going to be more complicated and expensive.
Really if just a few high-population states adopt rules to enforce and protect Net Neutrality, (one of the core principles of the Internet since it's inception) the efforts of FCC Chairman (and former Verizon Associate General Counsel) Ajit Pai will be for naught.
Really if just a few high-population states adopt rules to enforce and protect Net Neutrality, (one of the core principles of the Internet since it's inception) the efforts of FCC Chairman (and former Verizon Associate General Counsel) Ajit Pai will be for naught.
California net neutrality bill that AT&T hates is coming to New York, too
Posted from arstechnica.comPosted in these groups: Federal Communications Commission
State of New York
Internet
Telecommunications
State of California
State of New York Internet Telecommunications State of California
Posted 6 y ago
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The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the supreme law of the land. ... This makes the Supremacy Clause the cornerstone of the whole American political structure.
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PO2 Robert Aitchison
True but FCC rules aren't constitutionally enacted laws. If AT&T and the other telecoms can buy enough U.S. Senators and Representatives the states would be powerless to do anything about it but it's real expensive to buy such an overtly anti-consumer piece of legislation especially going into a mid-term election year with the Republicans who control congress looking more vulnerable than they have in decades.
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MCPO Roger Collins
Depends on whether ATT and others operate intra or interstate as I read it.
http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/const_juris.html
http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/const_juris.html
The Constitutionally Limited Jurisdiction Of The Federal Communications Commission
An examination of the limited jurisdiction of the FCC
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