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But an ISP, as it's core offering, doesn't offer me the capability to retrieve information. It gives me the ability to send some packets and maybe get a respons
by vel0city 2y ago
But an ISP, as it's core offering, doesn't offer me the capability to retrieve information. It gives me the ability to send some packets and maybe get a response. It is the information services like Hacker News that actually gives me the capability to post a comment and read replies.
One might as well argue the power company is an information service, since they offer me the capability to run the modem and power my computer.
- tptacek 2y agoIt really sounds like what you disagree with most of all is Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo. Fair enough! But: your side lost that case.
- wtallis 2y agoLoper Bright is only relevant here as the case that opened the door for the appeals court to more easily overturn the FCC. The case itself was not related to the FCC and isn't the source of any of the absurdity in this appeals court ruling.
- tptacek 2y agoYes: that's what Loper Bright does. In the absence of explicit statutory language to the contrary, the FCC can no longer assert its interpretation of the spirit of a law about allowing RBOCs to once again provide local POTS phone service as a broad mandate to regulate the Internet.