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[HR 3557] “Eliminates cable franchise renewals and eliminates the ability of local governments to require rules such as an ISP having to serve the whole communi
by SenAnder 3y ago
[HR 3557] “Eliminates cable franchise renewals and eliminates the ability of local governments to require rules such as an ISP having to serve the whole community, the local government requiring PEG channels, or the local government requiring customer service standards.”
This is a federal bill, but aren't federal powers limited to regulating inter-state commerce? Yet the powers it strips from state legislatures are clearly aimed at intra-state commerce.
- phrz 3y agoCongress's Commerce Clause power in the Constitution is notorious for being very broadly interpreted in the modern era. Here, Congress is either regulating a "channel" of interstate commerce (the internet) or intrastate economic activity that interferes with interstate commerce (local ISP rules making nationwide ISP business more burdened).
- LocalH 3y agoWickard v Filburn broke that, in ruling that a man growing more than the “legal limit” of wheat for his own use was nonetheless “affecting” interstate commerce.