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Nope, it’s definitely not telecommunications. I consider it more of a soft cheese, heavy in dairy.
What in the absolute fuck would it be other than telecommunications?
I had the same question, so for anyone who doesn't want to dig through the article:
Basically, Trump's lackeys legally classified broadband as an "information service" to screw the American people and the question is whether the Supreme Court will go along with this blatant nonsense.
And telephones use numbers and they print phone books. Lol. That’s just ridiculous. It seems on the face of it to be a purposeful misinterpretation to skirt the law. Could there be consequences for that?
In theory, yes. In practice... Ajit Pai is a lawyer and he's probably smart enough to avoid doing anything that is blatantly illegal. Or at least, avoid doing anything that would leave behind an evidence trail that could see him taking the fall for anything illegal.
Plenty of lawyers don't really know what they're doing, especially in Trump's orbit. I wouldn't be surprised if he was just betting on being on the side of political power and being able to get away with it.
And cell service isn't telecommunications because they offer caller ID and voicemail.
What stupid logic.
Why does offering DNS somehow matter?
I'm not saying I agree with it, but it kind of makes sense in a roundabout way. If you're resolving domain names and routing traffic to those domains, rather than simply routing traffic, then you're providing a more complete service.
I'd equate it to a phone company that includes a human operator as part of the service bundle, as opposed to you having to dial the numbers manually.
Why didn’t anyone sue when this ridiculous reclassification happened under Pai? If there was a lawsuit and it failed, I should hope this sane reclassification prevails. But we don’t have a very partisan court system right now.