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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
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.
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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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.
That phrase generally has a specific legal meaning, which returns me to my original point. Either malice (deliberately ignoring that meaning) or incompetence (not knowing that meaning) is required for the interpretation of the law to vary. The law can also be written maliciously and/or incompetently, of course, in order to attempt to cause such problems.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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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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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> 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.
"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.
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?