Did you feel it? Tech’s tectonic plates shifted last week when the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Chevron Doctrine, as it’s known, 6-3.

“Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the EPA, FCC, FTC, FDA, and so on. Even when Capitol Hill is not mired in deep dysfunction, the speed at which Congress and the courts operate no longer seems suitable for modern life,” said The Verge, and spoken with the myopia/agenda of a true tech publication.

The same has been said of the U.S. Constitution, but never mind that for our purposes here, and which we only mention as an homage to U.S. Independence Day this week on July 4.

To clarify, the Chevron Doctrine gave the administrative state/bureaucrats the power to interpret laws, circumventing elected officials. Aren’t the former subject matter experts after all? Not always.

Not by a longshot.

Some 80,000 decisions were made by various sectors of the administrative state/bureaucrats since the Chevron Doctrine went into effect in 1984 and the decision of people who were neither necessarily subject matter experts nor chosen by the consent of the governed, speaking of the Constitution, became word.

Net Neutrality in the crosshairs?

Given the reversal, the Net Neutrality issue is top of mind in the tech world, especially among the cabal. It was the enactment of Net Neutrality by the FCC that led to far fewer IPOs by startups, and the consolidation of power by the cabal. It was reversed when the next administration came in – IPOs were happening again and startups were again given a fighting chance. The current administration reinstated Net Neutrality rather recently – and the cabal is worried that this might come under scrutiny in the courts.

“After the opinion came out, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a think tank that receives funding from ISPs including AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon, cheered the decision and said it makes it “even less likely that the FCC’s recent regulatory overreaches on Digital Discrimination and Title II for the Internet will survive judicial review.” …“Now, the Commission will no longer have the refuge of statutory ambiguity to shield this overreach from judicial scrutiny,” ITIF director of broadband and spectrum policy Joe Kane said.

Note: at no time before or after Net Neutrality was instituted did the cable providers or telcos abuse their power. Can’t say that the same can be said of the tech cabal, and in this era of AI, this is once again a critical issue.

Also, odd that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a self-described “nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation”/re the censorship arm of the tech cabal that’s funded by the tech cabal, has never come under scrutiny from The Verge or any other leading tech publication. This from Reddit: SPLC told me I’m flirting with extremism using Brave as my default browser.

You do have to hand it to the cabal, though, for ensuring that they have ever-reliable mouthpieces/ megaphones re the tech press.

This decision is a political football with all sides playing the long game as the rest of us sit on the sidelines and in the crosshairs.

When it has come to Big Tech, it seems that at least so far, the public never wins, especially given the amount that Big Tech spends on Washington lobbyist, and as Politico reported a while back: “Lobbying surge: The major tech companies boosted their lobbying spending by more than $21 million in 2021, and their smaller rivals spent more, too ”

And rising, and we can assure you that that money did not go solely to members of Congress.

With the reversal of the Chevron Doctrine and the unelected, unaccountable administrative state at long last declawed, there might be at least a glimmer of hope when it comes to finally breaking that pattern. Onward and forward.