Simple question. By what authority can the FCC just grab this power? Someone more learned than me please explain. It appears to me that they just declared that they have the authority to do this and those affected are expected to just go along. What if they don’t?
Can I simply claim for myself a new power? How about this? I declare the Net Neutrality power grab by the FCC null and void. How about that?
I second your decree. So shall it be.
As I explain (I think) in my post at Somewhat Reasonable, a federal court told the FCC they can't do this. But they did it anyway. Some 300 members of Congress, including 82 Democrats, told them not to do this (in a non-binding letter). But the Democratic appointees on the FCC pushed it through 3-2 anyway.
That's the nature of federal bureaucracies: "We'll do what we want in an instant, and it will take years of procedures on your end to stop us." This is why the FCC cannot be allowed to get its way here and now. It must be countered by the other branches of government. Immediately. And we must be the coal in the engine of correction.