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Ajit Pai Backs Out of Planned CES 2018 Appearance (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the shaking-in-your-boots dept.

New submitter sdinfoserv writes: Ajit Pai, the most hated person in tech since Darl McBride, backed out of a speaking engagement at CES 2018. Apparently he lacks the spine to justify himself before the group of individuals his decisions affect most. Consumer Technology Association head Gary Shapiro announced: "Unfortunately, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is unable to attend CES 2018. We look forward to our next opportunity to host a technology policy discussion with him before a public audience."

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  1. Rotten Tomatoes by pete6677 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Best case scenario, he would only get pelted with rotten tomatoes. I can't imagine why he wouldn't show...

    1. Re:Rotten Tomatoes by sheramil · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'd say his concerns are entirely justified. All it would take is one ignorant neckbeard with a gun, who doesn't appreciate that Pai is a puppet and easily replaceable with someone else who can authorise the same laws. I don't think they pay him enough to die for the job.

  2. More than that by Tempest_2084 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >>Apparently he lacks the spine to justify himself before the group of individuals his decisions affect most.

    I'm guessing it's more like he fears for his life at this point. Never underestimate what a group of angry people will do. If society can justify punching out people they disagree with then they can just as easily justify beating the crap out of Pai.

    1. Re:More than that by sgage · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes. Right. Of course. It's all about race.

      Give me a break. It wouldn't matter if this guy was red, white and blue - he'd be hated. It has nothing to do with him being a 'brown man'.

      It has to do with him being a known and declared tool of the telecom industry, deceitfully ramming through what they wanted, at the expense of us all.

      And an abrasive, arrogant asshole on top of that.

  3. Piss off, race baiting troll by DanDD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An individual in Federal agencies that has broad rule-making powers has unilaterally decided the freedom and business landscape for _the_most_revolutionary_method_of_communication_used_by_humans, and you bring race into this?

    Piss off.

    --
    "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H. G. Wells
  4. Re:It is you pissing on freedom by slack_justyb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    stepped into a system that was working perfectly well with some occasional oversight by the FCC

    Bullshit. They were classified as Title II by the pressuring of Verizon in court case after court case that the FCC took major ISPs to court over. Like seriously, the FCC IMHO gave ISPs every single chance they could to clean up their act and they just kept saying, "nope, we'll see you in court."

    No, sir. No I will not. I will stand here forever, guarding against your toadying ilk that would destroy true freedom

    You have zero clues. You lack so much knowledge on this topic, you literally have no clue what the term "freedom" means. You say these words with conviction and all I can say is that I'm glad you believe every word you speak but you have zero clue as to what you are talking about. There's no point in trying to show you where you are wrong, I've come across several zealots like yourself in this discussion and even when shown the court cases, the actions of the ISPs, and piece of evidence after piece of evidence that this claim that the Internet was "working great" before is purely false. It all falls back on the brain dead argument of "well I don't like the government telling me or companies what to do." To which I say, go fuck yourself and your uneducated arguments that lack any resemblance to actual fact.

    In short, you've come to the wrong place on the Internet to spew this fiction that the Internet was "awesome and working perfectly" back in the day. Everyone here is well aware of what went down, we were all there. We all understand that once you peel the layers of your argument back it just reveals itself to be one of subjective matter on how you feel governments should work. No one gives a shit about how you FEEL things should work, we all saw ISPs give middle fingers to operators, protocols, networks, and other end nodes on the Internet that they felt just went against their business priorities. And that is the entire point. ISPs aren't created to make a business they're the gateway to the Internet, they are utilities not companies, but they want to convince folks that underneath they're businesses. They can all go suck a big cock with that idea. And then these companies bitch and moan about not being able to roll out because of regulation and how they welcome competition but when cities actually want to treat the gateway to the Internet like it should be treated "a utility" they start getting up in arms and suing the shit out of everyone, every where. That's the failure, that's the core point that people like you don't understand. Being an ISP is not a business. When you think of it like that, then you might as well privatize cops, fire departments, and the army itself. Because whatever made up line in the sand you want to create for why that isn't so, is just some subjective BS that a population of "just you" in that mindset.