Re:The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Inter...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @08:06PM
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> These regulations were only voted on late in 2016 and never went into effect. To do the regulations, the FCC reclassified the internet as basically ye olde telephone system
You are conflating two different orders; the reclassification was part of the 2015 open internet order (and was expressly laid out as a legal option in the court decision striking down the 2010 open internet order), not the 2016 privacy order at issue here.
> They did a swipe at the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC.
The FTC has no authority over even the non-telephone operations of the telephone companies who are many of the major ISPs.
You are conflating two different orders; the reclassification was part of the 2015 open internet order (and was expressly laid out as a legal option in the court decision striking down the 2010 open internet order), not the 2016 privacy order at issue here.
> They did a swipe at the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC.
The FTC has no authority over even the non-telephone operations of the telephone companies who are many of the major ISPs.