FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by protomyth on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:45PM (#9121221)

"My point is that non-elected officials are shielded from many aspects that lead to corruption in elected officials"

My point is that the non-elected officials are not shielded and have a different corruption path going. In a lot of ways, a rich elected official is probably better insulated than a high level bureaucrat.

We elect people to make the laws. Regulations are the laws and they should be the responsibility of the people we elect. I cannot vote out of office a bureaucrat. If you believe your congress person is corrupt then vote them out. This whole rule-making process is a corruption of the system.

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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by dragonwriter on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:05PM (#9121357)

Regulations are not the laws, they are applications of the laws, and they are made by processes laid out in the law, by persons empowered to make them under the law, and their substance is constrained by the law.

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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by protomyth on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:43PM (#9121551)

Regulations are the law. The thought they are separate is some technicality of the modern world. People get fined and go to jail over them.

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