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FCC argues that NOBODY can regulate broadband-companies.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/2/1876184/-Trump-s-FCC-votes-to-end-local-governments-ability-to-regulate-and-charge-cable-broadband-industryOn Thursday, Trump’s FCC voted to stop local municipalities and governments from regulating cable-networked broadband. The decision also limits what can be charged of cable companies. The decision to push forward with this dubious legal move on the part of Ajit Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, will likely be met with new lawsuits. The fundamental legal contradiction on the part of the Republican FCC is that in order to do away with net neutrality protections they have argued that broadband is an information service that the FCC cannot regulate. In so doing, they cannot tell local municipalities how to regulate those services in regards to the public good.
First the FCC argued in court that they cannot regulate broadband. Now they voted that others cannot do it either.