Today's Corporate Media Hype is Only The BEGINNING Of What Big Corporate Intends For America

[ancianita]

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Techdirt: The Corrupt Supreme Court Makes A Reckless Mess Of Broadband Consumer Protection (And Everything Else)
from the look-kids,-we're-dismantling-the-federal-government dept
Tue, Jul 9th 2024 05:25am - Karl Bode

The Supreme Court issued a recent ruling that ... dismantled decades of precedent and puts nearly all regulatory enforcement efforts at risk, yet it somehow barely warranted much coverage by a largely disinterested, billionaire-owned U.S. press...sold as some sort of noble, good faith rebalancing of power by industry, but the Loper Bright v. Raimondo ruling eliminates Chevron deference and upends the major questions doctrine...

You can already routinely see how hard it is for a U.S. regulator like the FCC, whose domain is telecom and (some) media, to pass even fairly-feckless policy choices without them being sued into oblivion. Even where they’re ... within their Congressional mandate...But even the existing corrupt, feckless mess that passes for coherent consumer protection in telecom is about to be upended by unelected [Republican] minority keen on dismantling the regulatory state on behalf of corporations looking to eliminate ... meaningful oversight...
Corporations didn’t lobby the unelected Supreme Court because they were just super concerned about the balance of policy power among “unelected bureaucrats.” They did it because they know they’ve already lobbied Congress into absolute, corrupt dysfunction on nearly all meaningful reform and corporate oversight. Now they’re taking aim at the already shaky authority of U.S. regulators.
All during the net neutrality debate you saw some variation of the claim that “if we want net neutrality protections, Congress should just pass a law.” This was usually made by companies like AT&T who know full well they’ve ensured that Congress is a corrupt, feckless mess. Now they’ve ensured regulators often can’t implement reforms without the explicit instruction of a Congress too corrupt to function. ...This is not a good faith effort at meaningful reform of policy power, and you don’t drop rulings like this the Friday before a major holiday because you’re proudly attempting to serve the public interest.

Once corporate America has the federal regulatory state handcuffed and neutered, they’ll shift their collective attention and resources toward undermining state rights. This is the culmination of a 50+ year Republican effort to dismantle coherent federal corporate oversight and accountability. All fights, on everything, are now local. And which state you currently live in matters more than ever. The goal isn’t some noble defense of freedom or constitutional balance. The goal is legal gridlock ... near-zero meaningful oversight of giant corporations. And there are decades upon decades of evidence as to precisely how that’s going to go for everybody without a seven figure lobbying budget.

And again, we’re not just talking about telecom or your expensive broadband bill. We’re talking about entirely new, bottomless legal fights over every last regulatory policy that impacts your everyday life. Every reform and every effort by every regulator governing every sector in the U.S. is going to be inundated with lawsuits by corporations claiming regulators lack the authority to do anything ... This intentional fracturing of coherent federal regulatory authority also comes as we collectively face unprecedented chaos caused by a destabilizing climate that’s only just getting started.

https://www.techdirt.com

EDIT: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/09/the-corrupt-supreme-court-makes-a-reckless-mess-of-broadband-consumer-protection-and-everything-else/

[CousinIT]

1. Link

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/09/the-corrupt-supreme-court-makes-a-reckless-mess-of-broadband-consumer-protection-and-everything-else/

[ancianita]

4. Thank you. I forgot that exact link. The details are enough to enrage all anti-fascist people.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Fuckers

Get the guillotine.

[2naSalit]

3. Because...

So far, they have failed to bulldoze us into complete submission. They've made some major gains and we have to stop them now or suffer for the rest of our lives.

[ancianita]

5. Now that they've bought the maga six injustices, their insurgency in government will bring long lasting fascism.

Unless we vote the way we did in 2020. We still have the numbers to keep them out.

[orthoclad]

8. Voting won't change the 6-3, though

Yes, we need to bring in massive numbers at the polls in order to defeat the subversions of our voting system, and the gameable Electoral College. 1/3 of eligible voters don't bother. How can we reach them, motivate them?

But defeating Trump won't affect the sitting judges majority. Unless we expand the court.

Besides the vote, we need to take tangible actions against the Bought Majority. They committed perjury at their hearings, and the corruption is appalling. Senator Whitehouse is taking action. Late, but still necessary.

Even if it doesn't succeed, we need to charge them with everything we can, and make them sweat.

Otherwise, we're stuck with them for generations.

The Right never says "It's too hard".

[ancianita]

9. Not directly but eventually, it will when we win the trifecta. That big win's got to happen before the USSC is nailed.

We only say "it's too hard" because we're a safe place to express opinions, however lazy, mindless or fearful. We endure such inertia because we're more small d democratic.
And in the end, the Right's never right.

[orthoclad]

10. But we had the trifecta in 21, and fumbled it

edit: "we" being the American people.

We could have expanded the court, done DC and PR statehood to hold the Senate, and charged Beer-bong et al with perjury. Even failures at these efforts will draw the uncommitted in.
Let's make sure we nail those bastards (non-gendered) this time. I don't want a bootheel on my face the rest of my life.

Proposal: Let's call it "Bootheel 2025".

[ancianita]

11. We didn't fumble. We ran the field for that 117th Session.

Coulda/woulda/shoulda now that we have new knowledge of the court's rulings, and stalled indictments, changes the field this time. THAT time it was too soon. THIS time, imo, is the time.

I'm with you on the bootheel vote.

[slightlv]

6. This is their response to over population...

ban abortion, every child born. BUT demand that the air, the water, the earth, and the food you eat kills you. Meanwhile, they think they can stay safe (if they think at all). Like I said elsewhere, eventually the pitchforks are going to come out. When that happens, I'd hate to be them. If the U.S. is not on an ever progressive (albeit slowly) scale, people are NOT going to stand being forced back into time as it was prior to modern science. Look at what's happening with abortion and women as a case study. This, too, will eventually have to come with hazard pay if the "laws" are not overturned soon. We can only stand so much stagnation; backwards racing even less than that and then riots break out. Although we scream about the corporations and multi-billionaires, we in this country tend to turn away from class distinctions. Between those of us Boomers still alive, and the young ones coming of age, issues of classism are going to start to take on a larger role in society, IMNSHO.

[ancianita]

7. AMEN to everything you say.

You make good points I want to address:

eventually the pitchforks are going to come out.

They're coming out now:
-- the Koch Heritage Foundation's been hacked and the data released that proves they've violated IRS law:
https://democraticunderground.com/100219127776
-- our site passed this along to get us to help
https://www.tiktok.com/@morgonic.music/video/7389446331175079214?is_from_webapp=1

-- the US Justice Department secured court approval to seize two domain names and search nearly 1,000 social media accounts allegedly associated with the effort.
“With these actions, the Justice Department has disrupted a Russian-government backed, AI-enabled propaganda campaign to use a bot farm to spread disinformation in the United States and abroad,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said....
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-leads-efforts-among-federal-international-and-private-sector-partners?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0HBZaX5ozxXGCmn0FswLjOVbPV7guE54yxVsRSty7XXgXYFyqeRdsBbEk_aem_x8k0GOpPtXDX-3-7YTOxQQ
-- re the felon, the attorney general of New Jersey stripped the felon's liquor licenses at both Bedminster and all NJ golf clubs because he is a felon convicted of crimes of “moral turpitude” and his attempt to transfer the license in the name of Don Jr. failed as well. No one associated with the felon may obtain a liquor license, as well.
this could lead to the forced sale of the felon's clubs if he fails to get his NY convictions overturned.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132229486

Look at what's happening with abortion and women ... if the "laws" are not overturned soon.

California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Vermont, and Ohio restored abortion rights -- a couple in their state constitutions, and full access -- and a whole nother bunch of states have abortion rights on the ballot in November.
https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/dashboard/ballot-tracker-status-of-abortion-related-state-constitutional-amendment-measures/

https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/

Just tryin' to say we're ON it and there's reason to hope.
It's also the growing voter awareness of corporate insurgency that Democrats, many never-trumpers, women, Blacks and Latinos will also be voting against.

Thanks for getting me goin' here!