Back when the anti-Net-Neutrality was pretending to have anything like
an argument (apart from, “NETWORK NEUTRALITY INTERFERES WITH MY ABILITY
TO BECOME LIMITLESSLY RICH, GO FUCK YOURSELF), one of the stupid pieces
of spaghetti they threw at the wall was, “The FCC shouldn’t regulate
telcos, that’s the FTC’s job.”
AT&T has just asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal over the
FTC’s ability to punish AT&T for false advertising (AT&T
promised “unlimited wireless data” but after its customers blew through
its laughably stingy data-caps, the “unlimited” plan throttled them to
acoustic-couple-style dialup speeds until the next billing period
started). In AT&T’s view, the FTC has no authority to regulate
telcos, because, uh, well, because if they can’t regulate telcos then
AT&T is off the hook for having defrauded America.
