[Las Vegas Ron]

You beat me by 3 seconds!

[eleni121]

This is good...but the fiends won’t stop.

[Danae]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

Tuesday's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a big victory for Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable company. It had challenged the FCC's authority to impose so called "net neutrality" obligations.

It marks a serious setback for the FCC, which needs authority to regulate the Internet in order to push ahead with key parts of its massive national broadband plan.

This is a setback I can believe in.

[Oceander]

Good. But the fascist liberals will see that this is undone but pronto.

[Lazamataz]

Any time the FCC is limited, it is good. THE FCC IS FOR BROADCASTING, not intertubing.

[ShadowAce]

[Tzimisce]

Oh thank god. A ray of sanity in a dark age.

[listenhillary]

Slap down the EPA next!

[pillut48]

Well, that’s heartening! Woohoo!

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

I’d be happier if the decision, which is concise and available at http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/comcastfcc.pdf, bothered to the Constitution. Instead, it merely notes that Congress has not given the FCC the necessary authority. So Congress can grant the authority needed, according to this decision. That should be no problem for this crowd.

IMHO the court should have stated that the FCC has no authorization UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, which grants the central government zero authority to regulate who does what on a private network.

[bamahead]

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[struggle]

Can I start a pirate FM station now?

[broken_arrow1]

Ping

[cranked]

Good news. *thumbsup*

[abb]

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/90747-fcc-dealt-major-blow-in-net-neutrality-ruling-favoring-comcast

The decision is a setback for lawmakers who are trying to legislate net neutrality, also with the assumption that the FCC has the authority to codify such rules. Lawmakers including Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have been big backers of net neutrality. In the House, Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) have repeatedly pushed for formal net neutrality rules.

[nutmeg]

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[GVnana]

Because the FCC "has failed to tie its assertion" of regulatory authority to any actual law enacted by Congress, the agency does not have the authority to regulate an Internet provider's network management practices, wrote Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Somebody reading the constitution?

[TheStickman]

Just the beginning of many judicial smack downs to come for Zero!

[Snerdley]

Yay!

[Rebelbase]

Drudge's headline and image on this are priceless!

COURT: NO INTERNET CONTROL FOR

FCC; BLOW TO JULIUS, REGULATION,

RULES