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FCC Accused of Colluding With Big Cable To Game 5G Legal Challenge (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Register: U.S. telecoms regulator the FCC has been accused of colluding with companies it is supposed to oversee in order to protect a controversial decision over new 5G networks. Chair of the House Commerce chair, Frank Pallone, has sent a letter to FCC chair Ajit Pai asking for copies of communications between the FCC and the big telcos regarding legal challenges to the regulator's 5G order, which forces local governments to charge a flat fee for installing new base stations. In the letter [PDF], Pallone strongly implies that the committee has heard from a whistleblower.
"It has come to our attention that certain individuals at the FCC may have urged companies to challenge the order the Commission adopted in order to game the judicial lottery procedure and intimated the agency would look unfavorably towards entities that were not helpful," it reads. In effect, the letter alleges that FCC staff -- almost certainly from Pai's office -- put pressure on the big telcos to challenge an order that is designed to benefit them as a way of gaming the judicial system so the case didn't end up in a court likely to overturn it.
"It has come to our attention that certain individuals at the FCC may have urged companies to challenge the order the Commission adopted in order to game the judicial lottery procedure and intimated the agency would look unfavorably towards entities that were not helpful," it reads. In effect, the letter alleges that FCC staff -- almost certainly from Pai's office -- put pressure on the big telcos to challenge an order that is designed to benefit them as a way of gaming the judicial system so the case didn't end up in a court likely to overturn it.
The whore colluding with the john against the government? No way!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
with treason and sentenced to death.
Another win for the MAGA useful idiots
Carrying water for billionaires
True dat
Who would've thought a "ex" ISP Shill would collude with ISPs. Crazy talk.
So basically the corporate shill game is find the CEOs favorite consumer gouging move and then drop the boom on them? Makes sense in a really weird way
Id I may point out, courts do not have to be corrupt for judges to have different policies on the bench, especially judges in different states and at different levels of state or federal judiciary. For cases involving millions of dollars and the profitability of entire industries, it is unsurprising that they and their attorneys would invest in "court shopping". It would be considered unethical for their lawyers _not_ to steer the cases to the venue that best serves their clients' interests.
Different judges have different tendencies and views even without being corrupt. "Gaming" judge assignments is a known lawyering trick in several countries.
The government for the past 10 years has proven it won't charge, nevermind try and convict its own police officers for egregious abuses of their privileges, nevermind tacking on color of the law penalties.
Half the voting public has chosen to vote in someone who is a complete RINO and former DINO over either a third party, or a first party representative who help up their beliefs.
And the FCC has been a cesspool for the past 2 years.
Now is the time to lock and load, or put out a bounty on the persons you believe most in need of house cleaning.
"Id I may point out, courts do not have to be corrupt for judges to have different policies on the bench"
The law is the law, so it requires either malice, incompetence, or both.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So the Democrat who hates the FCC makes an accusation (with no evidence) with an inference that there's a whistle blower (no evidence) that Ajit Pal (evil decepticon) is corrupt and needs to be investigated.
If there's a whistle blower (which I highly doubt) then they should present the evidence as well.
Color me surprised the Democrats would follow their SOP playbook.
"Id I may point out, courts do not have to be corrupt for judges to have different policies on the bench"
The law is the law, so it requires either malice, incompetence, or both.
You think the law is black and white and not open to interpretation? Or legislatures aren't clear?
Many years ago, a state (I think TX: Google is failing me.) passed an open container law. The entire legislature vote for it. However, the law just said "open container" and the lawmakers assumed that everyone would "know" that it must means alcohol.
They had to scramble to amend it because some sharp law professor pointed out that the law allows cops to arrest people who have open cans of Coke or open bags of potato chips. The judge would have to convict because of the way the law was written.
The FCC forces limits on local governments to charge a flat fee for installing new base stations instead of collecting $2B worth of fees -- that sounds like a GOOD thing to me. If local governments were to charge the 5G carriers up the wazoo, those costs would be passed on to their customers. The FCC stepping in to limit fees means more 5G coverage going in and lower prices for us consumers.
See subject & this lyric from it: "Now I see the payoffs everywhere I look - who do you trust WHEN EVERYONE'S A CROOK?" - Queensryche "REVOLUTION CALLING"
* Is it ME, or is the world going slowly nuts?
(I've made a point of asking my elders this & they say "it's the world the past few years now, not you" & I've been on this planet for over 1/2 a century++ & THOSE I ASK, A LOT LONGER... even younger folks than I feel this way too!)
APK
P.S.=> Seems a lot of things are crooked (& maybe it's always been that way to SOME extent BUT not like I see now + no, it's not that it's just "more exposed & faster now due to the internet" either)... apk
Your naÃveté is soooooo hot I could not resist replying in fact I have never seen such striking lack of awareness before
Exactly which laws are the law? State laws vary.
is this gonna change how anyone votes in 2020? No? Then so what.
As long as we keep voting in corrupt folks they're gonna keep being corrupt. And once again I'll drop this link to the only wing of any party that makes it a litmus test to refuse corporate PAC money. As always if anyone knows a GOP equivalent I'm all ears.
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So, the major telecom operators are "big cable" now.
I am waiting for the days we'll call the leaders of the democratic party "big ass".
Trump outpaced Obama for outsourcing and he's a GOPper. We tried your way and it didn't work. Now try mine. It works. It worked in the 50s when we had a 90% top marginal and it'll work now.
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Once the U.S. eliminated a major competitor in MANUFACTURING machined goods (in Germany's defeat in WW2) we enjoyed that - now, we have competition in that arena too.
APK
P.S.=> You're not looking @ the OVERALL economic picture between THEN & NOW rsilvergun... apk
Chair of the House Commerce chair, Frank Pallone
From the department of redundancy department.
Not only has Pai's office pandered to Big Cable to an excessive degree in the past two years, pushing through changes vehemently opposed by everyone that isn't one of the main telcos, there has been a rumors that the regulator is actively working in secret with companies it is supposed to oversee.
Grammatical errors aside, this writing is just... awful.
But local government officials were very suspicions something untoward was going on.
This whole affair is very suspicions indeed.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
so I can't resist feeding you a bit more, even though I know we're not supposed to feed the trolls.
WWII doesn't really matter in this context. It's a strawman you're using to distract from my main point, which is that giving all the money to the 1% hasn't stopped them from outsourcing jobs. We just borrowed $1 trillion and gave it to the 1% in the form of tax cuts and they used it for mother f*king stock buy backs. No jobs, no investment.
Companies don't hire because they've got money, they hire to meet demand. That is why demand side economics works and supply side (aka trickle down) fails. That's the "OVERALL" economic picture that you're ignoring.
But you're just an alt-right troll. You're not interested in solving problems or being right, just winning. I'm not the one that figured that out either, this guy is. He's got a whole series of videos on guys like you.
Thing is, if you're being paid it's not enough. Eventually they'll eat you alive. And if you've drunk the kool-aid then stop. It's poisoned. Go watch the videos on the Alt-Right playbook linked above and learn how you've been had.
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In effect, the letter alleges that FCC staff -- almost certainly from Pai's office -- put pressure on the big telcos to challenge an order ...
Now we can look forward to an endless series of tweets claiming "NO COLLUSION" from Ajit Pai and the FCC too -- sigh. :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
but it sure helps.
This is the result of two decades of court packing with pro-corporate justices. This is also what happens when you let money hoarding go unchecked. When it gets to be more money than a person can spend it's not money anymore, it's power.
We've let too much power accumulate into the hands of too few. We're going to start paying the price more and more often.
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See subject & I'm the LAST ONE calling for some 'violent revolution' but MORE of 1 of a "revolution of the mind" to set things RIGHT again (with RULES & PARAMETERS that are just/fair).
APK
P.S.=> Thought I'd STRESS that... apk
> The law is the law
If I may point out, that statement is an aphorism. It contains a general truth, but often breaks down very badly if applied badly. Judges generally have a great deal of authority to make a decision _within_ the law. Sentencing guidelines are set in the law as _ranges_. If the law did not require interpretation, there would be far, far fewer lawyers.
Everybody, everybody knew.
See subject & "CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE" vs. https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (& YOU SAID I DO NOTHING TO FIX THINGS vs. THAT? Please - FAR MORE THAN YOU EVER WILL & everyday) as you FLAP your COCKSUCKER, hmmm?
* Yes, RoTfLmAo... blowhard FAKE NAME chattering TWAT do-NOTHING you are.
(Your BIG MOUTH wrote checks it can't CA$H twice vs. me)
APK
P.S.=> Especially on the 2nd link: Tell us - HOW DOES EATING YOUR WORDS taste? Bit like your FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH ramming them back down your CHICKEN NECK chattering TWAT?? Bit like the BITTER taste of SELF-DEFEAT (per the 1st link where YOU ESTABLISHED THE CONTEXT I USED & yet you TRIED vainly to say "the context you used" lmao)... apk
"It has come to our attention that certain individuals at the FCC may have..."
Qualified accusation in the passive voice. Sounds like even the Register thinks it's Fake News.
Otherwise known morw simply as "lawyering."
What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
One is a scum-sucking bottom-feeder, and the other is a fish.
Not that there aren't sincerely good-intentioned lawyers out there... But there are plenty of despicable cunts out there.
You fail the government quiz. But you have great prospects as a telco shill, please apply immediately!
Too bad that's the wing of the Democrat Party that wants to make success illegal and tax jobs out of the country.
That's the type of jingoistic simpleton thinking that is ruining our country.
Here's what I do: I vote on a binary algorithm. There's Candidate A and B. Who most closely represent MY interests?
I vote accordingly. Over the next few years, I watch and see again, who represents MY interests? Wait?! MY candidate didn't vote for MY interests! Then it's the other guy! MY candidate is FIRED!! (At least with my vote.)
I live in a very RED area. My CongressFuckers have fucked us up the ass and mouth and ears and eyes so many times...but, they still get elected back into office because - the American Electorate treats their government like a fucking NFL team!!
The local governments are complaining about flat flees that prevent them from charging outrageous access fees to their utility poles.
This is actually in the FCC's wheelhouse since they can do things like prevent apartment complexes from banning satellite dishes.
However, Ajit Pai's stance on a lot of things is stupid, of course. ISPs need to be corralled/coerced into lower prices (or at least offering a cheap service tier that isn't crap).
(If these local governments were smart, they'd sue on the basis that the FCC should only be able to set access fees for telecom services. It would force ISPs to be either "information services" or telecoms, not both.)
"you're just an alt-right troll. You're not interested in solving problems or being right, just winning" - by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:19PM (#58025920)
EAT YOUR WORDS & let's see YOU do better vs. (on fixing things) https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... ok, CHATTERING TWAT? I do MORE than YOU ever have OR EVER WILL chump behind your FAKENAME!
You're EATING THOSE WORDS right now vs. what I put up in that link that I DO that really DOES FIX THINGS... how about you?
ZERO - just blowhard HOT AIR from you!
That's in ADDITION to MY use of the CONTEXT YOU YOURSELF ESTABLISHED & I shot you to pieces on it https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... as you OVERLOOKED the OBVIOUS from both ECONOMIC & POLITICAL HISTORY, fool!
(Made me laugh you trying to DEFLECT from that FACT you BROUGHT UP the 50's & we knocked out a MAJOR manufactured goods competitor in GERMANY right after WWII which IS the 50's dumbo!).
YOUR DEFEAT = EVIDENCED by the FACT you had to VAINLY TRY to EFFETELY "HIDE" THIS LAST TIME I POSTED IT here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> I do more in a SINGLE DAY on the front of FIXING things, for free for EVERYONE, than all your CHATTER will do in a LIFETIME of that wasted HOT blowhard AIR of yours chump... apk
"WWII doesn't really matter in this context." - by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:19PM (#58025920)
See subject & WRONG - it matters: You said "it worked the 50's" & that's post WWII (USA minus competition on manufacturing fronts as I SAID (& yes, it's fact, GERMANY was a MAJOR COMPETITOR out of the way there)).
* YOU YOURSELF ESTABLISHED "the context", STUPID - I merely followed it thru to its common-sense outcome!
Laissez-Faire (essentially a 'free-hand' minus TONS of gov't interfernce) ECONOMIC & POLITICAL POLICIES in gov't. ESTABLISH the rest - unless you want to do what JFK did THREATENING TO NATIONALIZE U.S. STEEL UNLESS THEY ROLLED BACK THEIR USURIOUS PRICES (How long did JFK live after THAT?).
YOUR DEFEAT = EVIDENCED by the FACT you had to VAINLY TRY to EFFETELY "HIDE" THIS LAST TIME I POSTED IT here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> You're not only an UNDER-EDUCATED fool on economics AND history but a DUMB FUCK that didn't even RECALL what YOU YOURSELF SAID, lol... apk
Nice try, cable shill.
See subject & results in https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://linux.slashdot.org/com... https://news.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://search.slashdot.org/co... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* That's only recently while I've been on Linux (July 2018) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: CONCRETE VERIFIABLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof). ... & that's ONLY what /. reported on (there are FAR more)
APK
P.S.=> "It's working: Neville... it's working!" - "I AM LEGEND" + HOSTNAME USE IS DOWN IN MALWARE https://unit42.paloaltonetwork... (my ACT OF FAITH is JUSTIFIED by fact)... apk
See subject, my own post I replied to & 1st 2 minutes of THIS to describe what I do (& MOST don't) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... per an ATHLETIC HERO of mine (one hell of a guy & an example to others).
* :)
(Ah, it's GOOD to be KING (the "Lord of hosts", sarcasm but fits here, perfectly!)).
APK
P.S.=> Want the WORLD to change, for the BETTER? CHANGE, good change, STARTS w/ YOU (the man in the mirror) & you should ALL be applying yourselves to Make a Wheel (as I have) per https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... instead of being CHATTERING TWATS behind FAKE NAMES... apk
"I wanna see change in the future - I'm gonna make the best of WHAT I HAVE (hosts files)" per Queensryche "Best I can" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
* TRY IT YOURSELVES CHUMPS - it's NOT that easy (but worth it, especially RESULTS that work https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
(Ah, it's GOOD to be KING (the "Lord of hosts", sarcasm but fits here, perfectly!)).
APK
P.S.=> Want the WORLD to change, for the BETTER? CHANGE, good change, STARTS w/ YOU (the man in the mirror) & you should ALL be applying yourselves to Make a Wheel (as I have) per https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... instead of being CHATTERING TWATS behind FAKE NAMES... apk
"I wanna see change in the future - I'm gonna make the best of WHAT I HAVE (hosts files)" per Queensryche "Best I can" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
* TRY IT YOURSELVES CHUMPS - it's NOT that easy (but worth it, especially RESULTS that work https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
(Ah, it's GOOD to be KING (the "Lord of hosts", sarcasm but fits here, perfectly!)).
APK
P.S.=> Want the WORLD to change, for the BETTER? CHANGE, good change, STARTS w/ YOU (the man in the mirror) & you should ALL be applying yourselves to Make a Wheel (as I have) per https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... instead of being CHATTERING TWATS behind FAKE NAMES... apk
See subject & this lyric from it: "Now I see the payoffs everywhere I look - who do you trust WHEN EVERYONE'S A CROOK?" - Queensryche "REVOLUTION CALLING" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
* Is it ME, or is the world going slowly nuts?
(I've made a point of asking my elders this & they say "it's the world the past few years now, not you" & I've been on this planet for over 1/2 a century++ & THOSE I ASK, A LOT LONGER... even younger folks than I feel this way too!)
APK
P.S.=> Seems a lot of things are crooked (& maybe it's always been that way to SOME extent BUT not like I see now + no, it's not that it's just "more exposed & faster now due to the internet" either)... apk
See subject & "For a PRICE, I'll do about anything (except 'pull the trigger' - for that I NEED A PRETTY GOOD CAUSE)" here's mine https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
* :)
Take a GOOD read, drink in & DIGEST THAT - & TRY do the same...
APK
P.S.=> Want the WORLD to change, for the BETTER? CHANGE, good change, STARTS w/ YOU (the man in the mirror) & you should ALL be applying yourselves to Make a Wheel (as I have) per https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... instead of being CHATTERING TWATS behind FAKE NAMES... apk
Sorry retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski, you are just a loser who is too dumb to realize you got stomped long ago.
Here is a chronicle of your bitch ass getting beaten on your port filtering statements.
Here is another one where your got beaten hard because you can't back up anything you say. This was about how you claim your shitware can block all hosts in a domain, which it can't.
Then there is your claim that the Chinese copied you but you admit that at best all you have is wild ass speculation and can't offer any real proof or even actual evidence to support yourself.
How about the list of experts you claim support your statements, none of which actually support your work and have been shown to actually be saying things different from what you stated they were.
Maybe instead you can tell us about your "success" where a project rejected your stupid simplistic idea or maybe threaten to sue someone again because you are a insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything.
Better yet you can prove how defective you are by continuing to repeat your debunked BS some more.
Why don't you get your pretend friend to post some fake support and then throw a fit when you get caught.
So, Ajit Pai has made a huge deal out of supporting deregulation of broadband in America. In fact, the FCC has been trying very hard to define 5G as a legitimate replacement for fiber (it could in theory work). And the American government has spent years attacking Huawei, even far past the point of rationally.
Who in the White House has interests related to 5G infrastructure? I doubt itâ€(TM) Trump is involved, not unless they are helping him get the wall, though it could be. What about his cabinet?
While I trust Huawei only a smidgen more than I trust Cisco (and Cisco feeds my family, but they are my creepy/dirty uncle), this is screaming conspiracy now. Someone who can influence the Whitehouse stands to profit hugely from keeping Huawei out of the 5G roll out. At least it really seems that way.
It would also explain almost everything Ajit Pai has done since coming to power.
What do you people think?
1.) My program stops portfilter errs in hosts https://news.slashdot.org/comm...
2.) CHINA did hardcodes LONG AFTER I DID "Time is on MY SIDE" (Rolling Stones) lol, period.
3.) Wildcards CREATE FALSE POSITIVES (try wildcard myftp.org, not all sites in it = bad). Hosts specifics don't cause that.
4.) I never had to sue Thor SCHMUCK - CA rescinded their FALSE POSITIVE error, sold off their shitty antivirus & I said I'd speak to an attorney & I did who advised I go thru their removal process & I won.
5.) /. users state the value of hosts for getting users more speed/security/reliability/anonymity listed here (enumerated as "Registered /.ers reviews") https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
6.) Security pros galore + /.ers praise the layered security efficacy of hosts quoted here https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
APK
P.S.=> You can't even STAND BEHIND YOUR WORDS (lies) you UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous STALKER of me... apk
We get it, retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski has nothing and can only keep repeating his debunked BS. He is even too dumb to understand that he shows everyone that he is a loser when he keeps repeating himself because he has nothing.
Look it is retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski's pretend friend to try and make it looks like someone supports him. If you actually aren't APK then you are an even bigger retard than he isn't even defending himself because he knows that every criticism of him is true. Although it might be his roommate that lives with him in the $1 house so he can afford to eat and pay the utilities each month
We get it Alexander Peter Kowalski is a retarded bitch who need fake support for himself and hide. He has nothing and can't backup his bullshit statements so he just keeps repeating them. They were all debunked originally yet he still chooses to keep repeating them thus proving how defective he is. Then like the retard he is he pretends that someone supports him. If the support isn't him then the person supporting him is an even bigger retard than he is.