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Wait. Is there some actual case at hand where the FCC abused this power against a private citizen, or does EFF just want to pick a fight here?
by aristus 17y ago
Wait. Is there some actual case at hand where the FCC abused this power against a private citizen, or does EFF just want to pick a fight here?
- cakeface 17y agoI read it as the EFF just picking a fight. They don't mention any current cases in the article and I couldn't find one on google.
- tptacek 17y agoAt the end of the article, they cite a case in Corpus Christi where they asked to inspect equipment in a man's house (he had been illegally rebroadcasting radio). The man refused. The FCC left. The man was fined.
- schwa23 17y agoDoes it matter? What if instead of searches, the FCC was granted the right to kill people? Wouldn't you want someone, anyone to get a judicial review of this right immediately? It doesn't matter to me that no private citizens have been affected by this yet. Why should we wait? If it is unconstitutional, which it seems to be, then they shouldn't be able to do it, period.
- aristus 17y agoWell, there's a pick your battles thing here. Every municipality has some law like "the commissioner may inspect the premises at any time for violations of code", etc. Those provisions are unconstitutional but as a practical matter are not the genesis of a police state. There are a lot of bugs in the law, so we should probably prioritize the most severe runtime errors.