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So if a company that on paper was GTE started selling hot dogs from a cart they wouldn't be subject to food regulations right? Because they're an information se
by vel0city 2y ago
So if a company that on paper was GTE started selling hot dogs from a cart they wouldn't be subject to food regulations right? Because they're an information service, not a food vendor!
Or maybe we should apply the laws as they are today to the actions organizations are today instead of imaging what they were in '96 and thinking they've never changed.
> In short, an “information service” manipulates data, while a “telecommunications service” does not.
I will forever respond to your comments with this quote until you really answer how an ISP substantively manipulated my POST request to Hacker News. This is the standard the court gave us. Tell me how my ISP is an information service here.
- tptacek 2y agoThere aren't Internet neutrality regulations. If there was a statute requiring net neutrality, you would have a point. The FCC invented their regulations out of whole cloth, and they were never granted that authority by Congress, which is why those regulations were just overturned. Yes: if AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Comcast, the Longmont Colorado municipal fiber network, Moviephone, or the Chicago Public Library decided to start selling hot dogs from a cart, they would be subject to food regulations, because those exist. Since the FCC's entire premise for coming up with neutrality regulations was that they were granted this authority by the text of the Telecommunications Act, it matters a great deal that the Act never mentions ISPs at all, and chiefly concerns itself with deregulation of local POTS phone service. This strategy you have of deciding that ISPs are bad and Net Neutrality is good and then working backwards to how the law should work is always, always going to disappoint you.
- vel0city 2y ago[flagged]