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FCC accidentally leaks internal “joke” memo about Chairman Pai [pdf]

41 points by doctorshady 9y ago

OtterCoder 9y ago
"accidentally" This has to have been purposeful, or forged. Either way, can't argue with it.
tj-teej 9y ago
I don't know what's worse, what the FCC is doing to destroy Net Neutrality or the fact that the word "cuck" has gone mainstream...
- doctorshady 9y ago
  It's not just net neutrality - it's pretty much all sound policy governing telecommunications: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/one-broadband-choice-still-counts-as-competition-after-court-decision/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/one-b... (Despite the broadband headline, this is regarding wholesale traffic on non-packetized networks. For convenience reasons, they do however occasionally do last mile internet delivery)
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praneshp 9y ago
Someone's losing their job today ....
CamperBob2 9y ago
Can someone with some business savvy explain how the financial markets are OK with what's happening in DC these days? Loose cannons and misguided missiles are not your friends. Ever. It doesn't matter what side you're on.
- aaronbrethorst 9y ago
  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/12/trump-tax-holiday-us-companies-apple-oxfam-tax https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/12/trump-tax-h...
  - CamperBob2 9y ago
    To the extent a repatriation tax holiday is the right thing to do, it should be possible to make that case in a traditional political environment where the legislators and executive are at least somewhat qualified to deal with it. Meanwhile, the abrogation of informed authority is leading to scenarios like this: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy... How healthy will it be for Wall Street (or anyone else on the West Coast) if the DoE is defunded to the point where they take their eye off the ball at Hanford? Basically, what I'm asking is this: the markets love Trump. Why aren't the risks associated with gross incompetence priced in? I'm missing something, obviously, and that bugs me.
- CodeSalad 9y ago
  I don't claim to be especially "savvy"-- but with more than a third of the market value held "passively" (meaning investors in indexed funds), a lot of people have traded voting with their feet for a sense of security. Thus, there isn't actually a lot of pressure in the stock market reservoir to bubble back up to the Beltway. After reading yesterday's HN topic: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-valuations-havent-been-this-extreme-since-1929-and-2000-2017-08-22 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-valuations-havent-... and the accompanying paper from Grantham, Mayo & van Oterloo: https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-commentary/strategies/asset-allocation/the-s-p-500-just-say-no.pdf https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-comment... ...my pithy summary would be "Winter is coming."
- trapperkeeper74 9y ago
  A libertarian economist would say: "Externalities are only bad when the island runs out of trees to chop down, canneries runs out of sardines to can and planet runs out of fossil fuels dig up."
kerpele 9y ago
Probably a hack but a fairly entertaining one
- deleted 9y ago
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mykeliu 9y ago
Is there a source for this? It looks like the document is hosted via the FCC's electronic comment filing system API, but I can't find a news source for this at all.
- doctorshady 9y ago
  This was the Reddit source I found it from: https://www.reddit.com/r/netneutrality/duplicates/6x368k/fcc_released_a_statement_about_ajit_pai/ https://www.reddit.com/r/netneutrality/duplicates/6x368k/fcc... For whatever it's worth, I think comments hosted on that server have a different naming convention; usually it's /file/<comment id>/<original submitted file name>.extension EDIT: Case and point, look at the format for comments in this proceeding: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-2 https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-...
- shlomok 9y ago
  There are about 10 articles about it now, look again
Slippery_John 9y ago
Legendary
dsr_ 9y ago
This is from the electronic comment filing system, where anyone can upload a PDF.
- shlomok 9y ago
  In that case it should be fairly easy to find the comment it's associated with. I originally had the same thought but couldn't find it after a fairly thorough search.

41 points by doctorshady 9y ago

"accidentally" This has to have been purposeful, or forged. Either way, can't argue with it.

I don't know what's worse, what the FCC is doing to destroy Net Neutrality or the fact that the word "cuck" has gone mainstream...

doctorshady 9y ago
It's not just net neutrality - it's pretty much all sound policy governing telecommunications: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/one-broadband-choice-still-counts-as-competition-after-court-decision/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/one-b... (Despite the broadband headline, this is regarding wholesale traffic on non-packetized networks. For convenience reasons, they do however occasionally do last mile internet delivery)

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praneshp 9y ago

Someone's losing their job today ....

CamperBob2 9y ago

Can someone with some business savvy explain how the financial markets are OK with what's happening in DC these days? Loose cannons and misguided missiles are not your friends. Ever. It doesn't matter what side you're on.

aaronbrethorst 9y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/12/trump-tax-holiday-us-companies-apple-oxfam-tax https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/12/trump-tax-h...
- CamperBob2 9y ago
  To the extent a repatriation tax holiday is the right thing to do, it should be possible to make that case in a traditional political environment where the legislators and executive are at least somewhat qualified to deal with it. Meanwhile, the abrogation of informed authority is leading to scenarios like this: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy... How healthy will it be for Wall Street (or anyone else on the West Coast) if the DoE is defunded to the point where they take their eye off the ball at Hanford? Basically, what I'm asking is this: the markets love Trump. Why aren't the risks associated with gross incompetence priced in? I'm missing something, obviously, and that bugs me.
CodeSalad 9y ago
I don't claim to be especially "savvy"-- but with more than a third of the market value held "passively" (meaning investors in indexed funds), a lot of people have traded voting with their feet for a sense of security. Thus, there isn't actually a lot of pressure in the stock market reservoir to bubble back up to the Beltway. After reading yesterday's HN topic: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-valuations-havent-been-this-extreme-since-1929-and-2000-2017-08-22 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-valuations-havent-... and the accompanying paper from Grantham, Mayo & van Oterloo: https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-commentary/strategies/asset-allocation/the-s-p-500-just-say-no.pdf https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-comment... ...my pithy summary would be "Winter is coming."
trapperkeeper74 9y ago
A libertarian economist would say: "Externalities are only bad when the island runs out of trees to chop down, canneries runs out of sardines to can and planet runs out of fossil fuels dig up."

kerpele 9y ago

Probably a hack but a fairly entertaining one

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mykeliu 9y ago

Is there a source for this? It looks like the document is hosted via the FCC's electronic comment filing system API, but I can't find a news source for this at all.

doctorshady 9y ago
This was the Reddit source I found it from: https://www.reddit.com/r/netneutrality/duplicates/6x368k/fcc_released_a_statement_about_ajit_pai/ https://www.reddit.com/r/netneutrality/duplicates/6x368k/fcc... For whatever it's worth, I think comments hosted on that server have a different naming convention; usually it's /file/<comment id>/<original submitted file name>.extension EDIT: Case and point, look at the format for comments in this proceeding: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-2 https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-...
shlomok 9y ago
There are about 10 articles about it now, look again

Slippery_John 9y ago

Legendary

dsr_ 9y ago

This is from the electronic comment filing system, where anyone can upload a PDF.

shlomok 9y ago
In that case it should be fairly easy to find the comment it's associated with. I originally had the same thought but couldn't find it after a fairly thorough search.