[hristov]

It is completely normal and accepted for various agencies to make rules within the confines of the laws that have empowered them. It is in fact necessary considering how complex our society is. Congress cannot possibly control everything.

If congress has power to pass certain laws, they have power to relegate some of such authority to a governing body. If the FCC's rules are in accordance with the laws that empowered it, then there is nothing wrong.

And no Trump never said he is against net neutrality. If he did that, he might have lost the election -- net neutrality is very popular.

[crdoconnor]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/53260835850816716...

"Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media."

[kyledrake]

Clearly he understands what net neutrality is. I'm so glad he took to Twitter to show everyone his strong opinion on the thing he understands.

Repealing net neutrality is far more likely to shut down his alt-right nightmare sites as they fall under the cost margins of eyeball ISPs artificially inflating their peering costs (turns out playing out your Slytherin LARP fantasies in the real world doesn't provide the same revenue as companies like NBC can get).

[ScottBurson]

Yikes! So he doesn't actually know what Net Neutrality is. He's come out against the AT&T/TW merger. Maybe at some point he'll realize that NN is also an attempt to fight excessive concentrations of power in media companies.

Personally I would give up NN if we could separate transport from content completely and have real competition among ISPs.

[hristov]

He tweeted that four days after the election. Again, I was correct to say that removing net neutrality was not part of his election platform.

[crdoconnor]

"He never said he was against net neutrality" is what you said.

[qb45]

> If congress has power to pass certain laws, they have power to relegate some of such authority to a governing body. If the FCC's rules are in accordance with the laws that empowered it, then there is nothing wrong.

Yes, and people who don't like these regulations have the power to vote politicians who would revoke this authority. Your argument is unlikely to convince anyone. Especially people who are concerned that governments regulate too much, as parent states.

[Tempest1981]

If only we could make line-item choices with our vote...

[angersock]

> It is completely normal and accepted for various agencies to make rules within the confines of the laws that have empowered them. It is in fact necessary considering how complex our society is. Congress cannot possibly control everything.

You are ignoring the obvious possibilities of letting local or state government legislate those things, or simply not legislating them.