US Court of Appeals rules that the FCC can consider single ISP areas competitive

[borndeadman]

https://www.techspot.com/news/76207-us-court-appeals-rules-fcc-can-consider-areas.html

The United States' Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that
the FCC can "choose which evidence to believe" regarding its recent
decision to allow areas with only a single ISP to be considered
"competitive" -- and thus immune to business broadband price caps -- so
long as a competing company's service region is less than half a mile
away.

If you're not quite sure what the implications of this ruling are,
ISPs that aren't challenged by any competitors often have price caps
imposed upon them to prevent them from unfairly raising prices for their
customers.

By allowing the FCC to deem areas with only a single ISP as
"competitive," these price caps could effectively be removed even when a
company has a monopoly in an area.

Multiple Sources: ArsTechnica

Hurray for letting big ISPS run wild. /s

[Borealis]

"The FCC can "rationally choose which evidence to believe among conflicting evidence," the court ruling said."

The sounds like terrible precedent whenever a GOP president is in office. The agencies under them wlll never believe in reality, the GOP won't get any better after Trump's out. Especially with the EPA.

[dogmachines]

So the same FCC that lied about a DDOS attack while fake messages supporting the NN repeal is supposed to be trusted with making a rational choice about what to believe?

Yeah this isn't gonna go well.

[Orpheus]

Textbook regulatory capture. We have a lot of work to do.

[Borealis]

People will get sick of Democrats after a few years and it will all happen again. Trump's filling federal courts at a record pace too so Dems won't be able to make lasting impacts like that as much.

[EggplantSorcerer]

I want to punch Ajit Pai in the face so hard it would turn my fist into dust.