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NRA Gives Ajit Pai 'Courage Award' and Gun For 'Saving the Internet' (arstechnica.com)
The National Rifle Association (NRA) today gave its Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award to Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. "Pai was about to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland when the award presentation seemed to catch him by surprise," reports Ars Technica. "The award is a handmade long gun that could not be brought on stage, so it will be housed in the NRA museum until Pai can receive it." From the report: "Ajit Pai, as you probably already know, saved the Internet," American Conservative Union (ACU) Executive Director Dan Schneider told the audience. The ACU is the host of CPAC; Schneider made a few more remarks praising Pai before handing the award presentation over to NRA board member Carolyn Meadows. Pai "fought to preserve your free speech rights" as a member of the FCC's Republican minority during the Obama administration, Schneider said. Pai "fought and won against all odds, but the Obama administration had some curveballs and they implemented these regulations to take over the Internet." "As soon as President Trump came into office, President Trump asked Ajit Pai to liberate the Internet and give it back to you," Schneider added. "Ajit Pai is the most courageous, heroic person that I know."
The signature achievement that helped Pai win the NRA courage award came in December when the FCC voted to eliminate net neutrality rules. The rules, which are technically still on the books for a while longer, prohibited Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful Internet traffic and from charging online services for prioritization. Schneider did not explain how eliminating net neutrality rules preserved anyone's "free speech rights." Right Wing Watch posted a video of the ceremony.
The signature achievement that helped Pai win the NRA courage award came in December when the FCC voted to eliminate net neutrality rules. The rules, which are technically still on the books for a while longer, prohibited Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful Internet traffic and from charging online services for prioritization. Schneider did not explain how eliminating net neutrality rules preserved anyone's "free speech rights." Right Wing Watch posted a video of the ceremony.
Pro white supremacist and anti-consumer. Way to make yourselves relevant.
Why dont they allow people to take guns with them to airports?
Why dont they allow North Korea to have nukes. Whatâ(TM)s to fear? The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a nuke is good guy with a nuke.
Literally could not get more American. Ending net neutrality means increasing incentive for people to build mesh nets, crush cable and cellphone monopolies, and make it borderline if not actually impossible to spy on people. The fact he's going to arm teachers, thereby removing the overwhelming majority of gun-free zones in the US, is fucking amazing. For the first time in my life we have a leader who is genuinely enhancing freedom and liberty instead of ceding authority to foreigners like the abomination that is the UN, and the tears of gun-grabbing practically-treasonous liberal-extremists is just icing on the cake.
Cue the pro-Fourth Reich government noose on free speech paid pro-Neuterality AC trolls.
The NRA is pretty much the only organization left sticking up for the Constitution, and I don't see anything in the Constitution giving an unelected body the power to regulate speech just because it's on computers.
Pai deserves a reward for sticking up for the Constitution and removing burdensome government regulation from the Internet.
I think this post is bull. There's NOTHING on the NRA's website about this. You'd think there would be.
It's nice that he got an award because the NRA is well and truly right on this, what a shame so many supposedly technical minded people have been brainwashed into believing the opposite.
Not even history will show this obviously to be the right course of action because all that will happen is none of the disastrous effects the net neutrality regulation would have brought us will come to pass, and people will forget this issue even though none of the dire things they claim will occur from dropping it will happen either... so he'll never get any credit for being right from the majority of the technical crowd.
Come at me, mods.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I really feel like the NRA was threatening armed insurrection if Donald Trump is removed from office.
"People" like you are conspiring to remove Trump from office without an impeachment vote in the House and a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Your plan is to indict him and have him arrested using a warrant issued by an obscure federal judge nobody has ever heard of, with SJWs role-playing as law enforcement agents during the planned perp-walk.
If that happens, I will welcome armed insurrection against the Deep State Left, and the killing of scum like you in the street outside your home.
Of course it's a gun-free zone, pope fatso. The venue, owned by Marriott, does not allow guns. However, they made up for it by having armed security and metal detectors, thereby ensuring the safety of those who choose to give up their personal protection when entering the premises.
Don't you ever get tired of looking like a goof?
WAH WAH THE LEFT WAH WAH DEMOCRATS WAH WAH SNOWFLAKES. All you've done is stop relevant discussion by whining about the faceless evil that you call THE LEFT. Your rhetorical approach is worthless. Notice how you're the only one who believes these things actually need to be addressed? Seems to me the only snowflake present is you, as your contribution here is simply a knee-jerk partisan blame game towards the left. That's a perfect example of being hella basic in America. You'll need to step up your game if you want to address anything. Propose some ideas worth talking about, and maybe the left (meaning people that you have labeled so poorly, nothing more) would at least humor you. But your track record here is the same as most stupid Americans: Attack the symptom, ignore the cause. And the only way to fix that issue is to stop making/posting assumptions, and start asking questions. The more everyone becomes open to discussion, the more progress we'll make. And NO progress is going to happen with your approach, so pardon me while I take a nice steamy dump all over you.
These are not related issues, you are proving your insanity or disengenuity or both by trying to lump them together.
You are blatantly begging for money for your pet candidate, advertising him based on a few cherrypicked issues.
You're trying to warp your district by acquiring resources outside of it to put on a production to attract the people inside the district, subverting the democratic process.
If I was sheriff, you'd hang.
Absolute scum.
My karma was manually wiped by site staff https://slashdot.org/~slshdtisctrldbysjws 18 mod up, 10 mod down = bad karma
I wish I had mod points. Slashdot has become a leftist shithole. I've been here nearly 20 years. People here used to have conversations, but now it's just propaganda for the hard-left.
eleven plus two / twelve plus one
LOL still beating that "you're a nazi" dead horse, eh? Keep it up. You people called Mitt Romney a Nazi. What a joke. LMAO.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!