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> the letter alleges that FCC staff – almost certainly from Pai's office – put pressure on the big telcos to challenge an order that is designed to benefit them
by inetknght 8y ago
> the letter alleges that FCC staff – almost certainly from Pai's office – put pressure on the big telcos to challenge an order that is designed to benefit them as a way of gaming the judicial system so the case didn't end up in a court likely to overturn it.
- bhhaskin 8y agoThe FCC is so corrupt. FBI really should be brought in to clean house.
- kryogen1c 8y agoAs much as everyone hates Trump, he has been outstanding in highlighting the absurdly corrupt system. Can't drain the swamp you didn't know existed.
- ceph_ 8y agoNo one should be thanked for promoting such levels of blatant corruption. They're undoing the reforms already in place to stop them.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoAs well as resetting the bar that Americans are willing to tolerate, sadly.
- grawprog 8y agoTrump appointed Ajit Pai as FCC chair...
- oxide 8y agoThe swamp is overflowing and the drain is not only clogged, but non-functional. If you really believe Trump is part of the solution and not another cog in the problem machine, I'd appreciate if you elaborate why.
- snickell 8y ago> Can't drain the swamp you didn't know existed. I.e the corruption has become so blatant as to be more widely acknowledged. I think there's an interesting possibility of "hitting rock bottom" and recovering, vs the probably rampant but less overt corruption in past decades.
- afiori 8y agoI have heard an interesting point (relating to the FBI al least). Disclaimer, I do not necessarily agree: since trump has been under investigation for almost his whole presidency he cannot fire people because it would now be obstruction of justice. https://youtu.be/y5-br83GlLc https://youtu.be/y5-br83GlLc
- prklmn 8y agoEveryone knows corruption is rampant. He’s just the first one to talk about it so much. Too bad he’s only worsened the problem.
- Tsubasachan 8y agoUhm no America has been corrupt for a long time and people have been talking about it for a long time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall
- pas 8y agoHe doesn't talk much about anything, just word-vomits a lot on camera and on twitter. Drain the swamp was a campaign slogan and Trump repeated it a lot, but haven't really talked about systemic corruption. (See the rootstrikers movement for some serious effort on the topic.)
- fivegeeohgee 8y agoLike the FBI isn’t equally corrupt.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoAjit Pai is corrupt. There are good people still at the FCC.