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My understanding is this falls into a gray area of the old rules, which weren't in place long enough to get a court ruling that would provide clarity. Verizon could throttle a user's connection once they exceeded a certain threshold of data usage (the FD had), and there was high traffic on its network. Fire department claims they were being throttled all the time, which would have been prohibited. Verizon claims they were only throttling during peak usage.

I don't want to give the FCC regulatory authority over any part of the Internet, yet throttling is the one thing that I am convinced should be regulated. I'm conflicted.

 

Manchin is a DINO. He really should switch party affiliation to be more honest.

 

If he was a DINO, he’d have made the easy political choice and switched parties.

 

Trump's name will be mud. They don't realize it, but history has been watching all of this shit.
And none of these bad actors understand how this is going to blot the names of their grandchildren.
I've mentioned this before, the ancient Romans used to have a legal device by which the traitor's name was laboriously scrubbed from the record. Such should happen with the Trumps and their enablers.
It won't, but it should.

Damnatio memoriae - Wikipedia

 

/approves

 

No reason for an American outlet to spend time on this unless it wants to create racial animus. And that's what Fox News does.

 

And that's why Trump is doing it, right?

 

Interesting. Thanks.

What do you think might be the effects on price and level of investment if this type of throttling was regulated?

 

You can already see it in our local Trumpists: When this shit really falls apart, which it will, most of these guys will deny ever really supporting Trump. They'll be like Nazis who claim to be conscripts rather than collaborators.

 

Trump Was Winning. Until Tuesday.

It’s not clear whether federal prosecutors knew in advance that Cohen would implicate Trump, but if they had any reason not to believe him, they were obligated not to permit Cohen to lie to the judge. Because they didn’t, we know that his statements were consistent with the other evidence in their possession.

So Cohen wanted to publicly reveal that Trump directed him to commit crimes. The implication of his statement is obvious — it is a crime to direct someone else to commit a crime. And Cohen is not done. His attorney Lanny Davis told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night that Cohen is willing to provide information to Mueller about a possible “conspiracy to collude” with Russia and whether Trump “knew ahead of time” about computer hacking. ...

Trump’s team reportedly believes the fact that Trump won’t be indicted is their ace in the hole. It’s easy to see why — Trump’s disinformation strategy has convinced the Republican base that Mueller’s investigation is illegitimate, and Trump has good reason to believe that his base will stick with him no matter what Mueller uncovers. The votes of 67 senators are required to remove a president from office, and at this time it is hard to imagine 19 Republican senators voting against Trump. ...

That is what the survival of the Trump presidency comes down to. If Trump has 34 Republican votes in the Senate, he can pardon his friends and associates with impunity and he need not fear an indictment in the upper chamber until 2021 at the earliest. Even if Trump loses the 2020 election, he could step down and have Vice President Mike Pence pardon him before he leaves office. Any limits on Trump’s pardon power are untested. It’s not clear if New York’s attorney general will come riding to the rescue, either: State prosecutors cannot charge obstruction of a federal investigation and are unaccustomed to charging complex financial crimes.

So it will take a significant shift among Republican senators — or the next presidential election — to remove Trump from office. Tuesday’s drama suggests that Trump is still vulnerable to sudden shifts in the legal narrative, but ultimately his fate will be decided in the political arena, not a courtroom.

 

I saw "Pat" and "incorrect pronoun" and thought, "Yep, that's easy to do."

 

Not to be left out of this week's clown carnival, heeerrrrrre's Betsy ...

Betsy DeVos Is Said to Weigh Letting School Districts Use Federal Funds to Buy Guns for Teachers