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  "description": "‘Why not? I figured people couldn’t die a second time,’ FCC Chairman said.",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, July 14, 2025 – People may not be able to die twice, but regulations certainly can.\n\nFederal Communications Commission Chairman **Brendan Carr** _announced_ Friday that the agency was removing 41 rules or requirements, totaling 2,991 words “concerning utility-style burdens on the Internet adopted under the Biden Administration.”\n\nAs the announcement itself noted, the deleted rules were already out of effect, having been struck down by the Sixth Circuit _in January 2025_. But, though the regulations had been struck down, they remained in the FCC’s list of Rules and Regulations, albeit unenforced.\n\n\n\n_****There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...****_\n\n There's a whole community behind your FREE membership... \n\nThe FCC’s announcement tied the deletion of the defunct regulations to its “Delete, Delete, Delete” _initiative_, which sought _to reduce_ “unnecessary regulatory burdens.”\n\n“The Commission has been conducting a thorough review of its regulations to identify unnecessary rules, including those made obsolete by Court decisions,” _the announcement_ read. “These deletions will clean up the Commission’s regulations and reduce confusion for communications service providers.”\n\nSome of the regulations eliminated Friday concerned the FCC’s 1996 Local Competition Order. In 2000, the Eighth Circuit ruled against portions of the order, though the corresponding regulations were never removed.\n\nThe other regulations eliminated Friday were tied to former FCC Chairwoman **Jessica Rosenworcel** ’s 2024 _attempt to reclassify_ internet service providers as Title II common carriers under the Communications Act. Those rules _first appeared_ in 2015 during the Obama administration, but were nixed under Trump.\n\nHad Rosenworcel’s proposed regulations stood, ISPs would _have been forbidden_ from blocking or throttling internet traffic, and would have been subject to additional FCC oversight on a variety of matters.\n\nOn Saturday, Carr _posted to X_ an image of a headline from _The Verge_ describing the FCC’s removal of the rules. Carr captioned the image with, “Why not? I figured people couldn’t die a second time.”\n\nNot everyone was happy with Carr’s decision. Free Press vice president of policy and general counsel **Matt Wood** _called the announcement_ “political theater,” and vowed to continue _fighting to appeal_ the Sixth Court’s decision.\n\n“The FCC’s so-called deletion today is little more than political grandstanding,” Wood said. “What’s sad about it is Brendan Carr, as usual, prioritizing political theater and ideological obeisance over actual legal reasoning and policy impacts.”\n\n“There’s no need to delete currently inoperative rules, much less to announce it in a summer Friday order,” Wood said. “The only reason to do that is to score points with broadband monopolies and their lobbyists…”",
  "title": "Carr Eliminates Already Defunct Net Neutrality Regulations",
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