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Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair (fastcompany.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the yay-or-nay dept.

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.

8 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. LOOOOOOOOOOL by sexconker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This country is well and truly fucked.

    1. Re: LOOOOOOOOOOL by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 2

      Lucky for US he only has a 2% chance of going to jail or getting assassinated, and those chances keep going down the more he runs his ignorant mouth! : ^)

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    2. Re:LOOOOOOOOOOL by thewolfkin · · Score: 2

      We survived 8 years of Obama... you'll survive 8 years of Trump.

      Obama was trained in politics, he was a great public speaker and he had actual policies.

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  2. Hail the Corporate Overlords by locater16 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Hail the Corporate Overlords by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

      Is there a list of his "past initiatives & intentions"?

      #27: Proposed Verizon slogan: "Can you fear me now?"

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  3. States rights? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  4. Re:almost all the yea votes? by Tablizer · · Score: 2

    follow the money, bribery is legal in DC (although not always transparent)

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  5. Re:almost all the yea votes? by denzacar · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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