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OK - 7 today, 700 tomorrow. The first tax code was just a few pages.

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > OK - 7 today, 700 tomorrow. Bad rules tomorrow could be adopted whether or not the rules adopted now were adopted.
  • Randgalt 12y ago
    Not true. This initial ruling establishes the precedent that the FCC has regulatory authority over the Internet.
    • dragonwriter 12y ago
      > This initial ruling establishes the precedent that the FCC has regulatory authority over the Internet. No, it doesn't, its not the first FCC regulation directed at the internet. Its one of several assertions of FCC regulatory authority over aspects of the internet. Further, even if it did establish that precedent, it still wouldn't do anything to affect the capacity for future bad regulation, because any future regulation could do everything this did plus any bad things all at once, there is no need for separate and preceding "precedent" creating action by a regulatory body to enable future regulations.
    • Randgalt 12y ago
      You are far more optimistic than me. I'm 50 years old and I've seen this movie too many times. The regulations will grow, not shrink.