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Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Trump Destruction, Say U.S. Courts Are Broken
A fusion of authoritarianism and corporatism is destroying what’s left of already soggy U.S. federal consumer protection and corporate oversight. You might not know this because the U.S. press and …
This extremely popular effort by our communications regulators to hold shitty regional telecom monopolies accountable was summarily executed: first by a Trump-loaded 6th Circuit, then inevitably by Trump’s hand-picked earlobe nibbler at the FCC, Brendan Carr. Feds abdicate their responsibility to protect workers and consumers, regulatory agencies are steadily hollowed out like pumpkins, and a rotating suite of states (with varying degrees of competence) try to fill the void. States, facing unprecedented legal assault on everything from immigration law to healthcare, aren’t going to have the time, resources, or staff to meaningfully pick up the feds’ dropped ball on consumer protection and corporate accountability (see: popular right to repair reforms).
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