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Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules by masklinn on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:55PM (#15934526)
> If nothing else, mischaracterizing a clearly-labeled presumptive statement as a "damn lie" reveals your malice and discredits your POV.

Oh come off your high horse,

> FCC was not anxious to implement these rules and did not do so until the very end of Obama's term

is not presumptive, and it's a bald-faced lie.

> It was clear that ISPs did not fit the legal definition of Title II carriers which is why they weren't just classified as such at the beginning.

Oh look, an other lie. DSL ISPs were classified under Title II until 2005 when Bush's FCC reclassified them.

> It was clear that it was not likely that they would retain this classification

It was not clear at all, and regardless there is no "burden of net neutrality repeal" following a court order.

> whose primary contention, by the way, is not that net neutrality shouldn't exist, just that Title II is not an appropriate regulatory framework in which to cast it

And that's a bullshit assertion, as I told you in my previous comment the only reason Obama's FCC reclassified ISPs under Title II is that the courts ruled net neutrality could not be enforced otherwise.

And regardless of judicial review risks, the only alternative would have been a brand new Telecommunications Act. In 2015. With a GOP legal majority.

But funnily enough, "concerned Ajit Pai" has been hard at work reclassifying ISPs without either waiting for the court decisions you state was clearly coming, and without putting any effort into building a new regulatory framework.

You know what that sounds like? Concern trolling.

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