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I'm not the author of the list below, but it's a nice TLDR. Here is a list of harmful nonsense [1] Pai and his FCC did over the last four years: - Killed net
by illuminated 6y ago
I'm not the author of the list below, but it's a nice TLDR.
Here is a list of harmful nonsense [1] Pai and his FCC did over the last four years:
- Killed net neutrality
- Approved T-Mobile / Sprint merger
- Repeatedly released reports that claimed U.S. broadband is fine
- Defended murder of net neutrality in court
- Flubbed Puerto Rico hurricane disaster response
- Slow-walked and obstructed investigation into telecom company sale of your location data
- Said FTC would protect net neutrality (it didn’t, and couldn’t)
- Falsely claimed killing net neutrality was good for broadband access (it wasn’t)
- Refused to brief Congress about telecom companies’ sale of their customers’ phone location data
- Helped Comcast and other major telecom companies in their pursuit of monopolistic power
- Oversaw America’s falling rank in an annual “Internet Freedom” index
- Allowed Verizon to throttle California firefighters’ data while they were fighting unprecedented wildfires
- Invented a DDoS attack that shut down the FCC’s net neutrality comment system
- Lied to public about that fake DDoS attack that shut down the agency’s net neutrality comment system
- Lied to Congress about that fake DDoS attack
- Didn’t detect that dead people were leaving comments on net neutrality comment system
- Refused to change the definition of ‘broadband’
- Demanded $200 to release emails about his giant mug
- Allowed scammers to submit fake comments about net neutrality under the names of two sitting senators
- Did that dumbass Harlem Shake thing with a pizzagate conspiracy theorist
- Became a rubber stamp for Sinclair Media and
- Tried to kill a broadband assistance program that subsidized internet connections for the economically unstable and poor
- Got a literal gun from the NRA for his “courage” in killing net neutrality
- Was investigated by his own agency for alleged corruption as he pushed to dismantle media consolidation rules
- Published report claiming broadband market was magically fixed by repealing net neutrality
- Ignored 22 million comments supporting net neutrality
- Tried to reclassify cell phone data service as “broadband internet”
- Allowed phone call rates for incarcerated people to skyrocket
[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/topic/ajit-pai https://www.vice.com/en/topic/ajit-pai
- BitwiseFool 6y agoIf a silver-lining is possbile from all this, way more people know about Net-Neutrality and now think it's important.
- godelmachine 6y agoDo we stand a change to reverse the damages he has inflicted?
- dangjc 6y agoThere’s a good chance to get decent commissioners approved by a Democratic Senate. They can start a process to make new rules. Federal agencies have a rule making process which requires evidence and findings, especially to change prior rules. Hopefully there will be mounting evidence that many of these changes were harmful.
- DamnYuppie 6y agoI haven't been following the aftermath of the net neutrality decision. Are there any data points that point to the impact of it being worse for most consumers, either in access or cost?
- ViViDboarder 6y agoNet Neutrality never really became status quo. It wasn’t in place for long enough to see any significant challenges. It’s removal was a return to status quo, so there would be nothing to measure. As a consumer, one thing that’s been visible to me, without Net Neutrality, is connectivity companies (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, etc) buying media companies (HBO, Hulu, etc) and then implementing bandwidth caps and then zero rating their traffic to get edges over their competitors who don’t control the networks. There is some history of it, including links to research, on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
- aaomidi 6y agohttps://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tracker/ https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tr... Your average HN user is probably from a state that still has NN.
- tzs 6y ago> Approved T-Mobile / Sprint merger That was a good thing. Sprint was toast either way. We were going to go from 4 to 3 major carriers. The only real question was whether we should have the remains of Sprint be used to strengthen T-Mobile, which was the weakest of the remaining major carriers, or let Verizon and/or AT&T get Sprint's goodies.
- causalmodels 6y agoI'm interested to see what Dish Network's (I think this is the right company) next move is. They are sitting on a ton of spectrum and now have a legal level to use their competitors' infrastructure to slingshot themselves into being competitive.