$718K penalty against M.C. Dean for blocking Wi-Fi devices (2015)

Re:$718K penalty against M.C. Dean for blocking Wi-Fi device... by wikibob on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:58AM (#13316519)

I suggest reading the entire notice. The dissenting commissioners do some serious mental gymnastics to justify their disent.

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Re:$718K penalty against M.C. Dean for blocking Wi-Fi device... by bbarn on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:01AM (#13318293)

It sounds more like they are saying "Yes, this is bad, but technically not illegal under our laws". Sounds more like they are doing their job rather than being emotional about it.

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Re:$718K penalty against M.C. Dean for blocking Wi-Fi device... by jessaustin on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:16PM (#13321678)

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with this idiom. "Mental gymnastics" can be motivated by emotions, but they don't have to be. It isn't motivation that makes any particular mental activity gymnastic, but rather it is incoherence. The commissioner writes as if [0] doesn't exist, even though he probably had it open in another window on his screen while writing the dissent. Ideology and avarice were probably more salient motivators than emotion.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/15.5#b

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Re:$718K penalty against M.C. Dean for blocking Wi-Fi device... by witty_username on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:28AM (#13317060)

Why do you think it's mental gymnastics?

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