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Minnesota Will Also Sue The FCC for its Net Neutrality Repeal
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson tells Minnesota Public Radio that her state will be joining the growing roster of states who plan to sue the Trump FCC for their rushed, unpopular repeal of net neutrality. The FCC faces numerous lawsuits over the repeal in the new year, once the order formally hits the federal register in January. The lawsuits will focus on how the FCC lied repeatedly about the justifications for the repeal, ignored the massive public opposition to the move, and turned a blind eye to rampant identity theft and fraud during the public comment period, presumably designed to downplay said public opposition.

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maartena

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Its hard to be a Republican these days.....

Most of my Republican friends have been getting quieter, and quieter, and quieter over the last year. They all voted for Trump, and every single one of them has said they wished they didn't. (Now, I am in Orange County, a county that usually votes Republican, but went Democrat in 2016, and Republicans around here typically do have SOME brains....)

Most of them are techies, granted, so Net Neutrality lies a lot closer to their hearts than say e.g. that abomination of a tax law, but.... it's getting hard to be a Republican and still stand behind Trump these days.

Good on Minnesota. California is planning a similar suit, and put their OWN Net Neutrality laws in place.... and its going to be almost impossible to impose fees and caps on your market of e.g. 9 states with decent footprints in each state, if e.g. 4 of them have a net neutrality law in place.... It would be easier and cheaper to just go with Net Neutrality then.

New York, Illinois, Oregon, Iowa and Massachusetts have already filed. Minnesota is next. California is working on it and probably will file in January. Keep it coming, and suck it Trump & Paj!