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Internet Wiretap Push is "Gobbledygook"

The FCC’s bizarre effort to unilaterally force broadband ISPs to make their networks wiretap friendly drew open derision from the bench on its first court hearing today. One of the judges hearing the case called the FCC’s argument “gobbledygook,” the AP reports. “Your argument makes no sense,” U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the […]

The FCC's bizarre effort to unilaterally force broadband ISPs to make their networks wiretap friendly drew open derision from the bench on its first court hearing today.

One of the judges hearing the case called the FCC's argument "gobbledygook," the AP reports.

"Your argument makes no sense," U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission, Jacob Lewis. "When you go back to the office, have a big chuckle. I'm not missing this. This is ridiculous. Counsel!"

Edwards was one of a three judge panel hearing a challenge to the FCC's decision at the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.

The FCC's equally-adventuresome broadcast flag ruling met the same fate last year, forming one of 2005's Best Tech Moments.