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FCC Passes Controversial Net Neutrality Rules

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The regulations aren't public yet because this is standard FCC procedure. This isn't anything different than any other FCC regulation. For "people aren't fully educated about this:" That's exactly why we have independent regulatory agencies instead of just enforcement agencies; it's because it's generally been considered better to have Congress set the general framework, but let the technical matter of regulation be managed by people who know what they're talking about, employ others who know what they're talking about, and are generally protected from political interference (the only way to directly overrule an FCC decision is through act of Congress; the President can't overturn it, and he can only remove commissioners for good cause, or by waiting for their term to expire). The whole point is to insulate the FCC from the political process to some degree, to help slow down political leaders making really stupid decisions by letting people who know what they're talking about actually write the regulations).

You probably couldn't get away with firing an FCC commissioner to reverse this decision; even if you could, administrative agencies are loath to quickly reverse themselves, because that's very rarely a good idea (hence, the long, long delay before the FCC classified Internet under Title II -- reversing yourself is only done if there is no other option, because lots of people depend on the law being relatively stable). The fastest way to reverse it would be to pass a law, but passing a law is intentionally slow. That means that this decision can be reversed politically, but it's hard to do so before there's actually some idea of the effects of it. And that's a good thing -- it means that knee-jerk reactions don't cause the rules to change wildly, and the particulars are decided by people with some degree of actual knowledge about how this stuff works.

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