Here is a shocker: Hundreds of thousands formal documents sent to the FCC that support Net Neutrality have been ignored. An excellent in-depth report by The Register shows that the new Internet rules adopted by the FCC were written by cable companies, almost word-for-word. This is no surprise as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was once an associate general counsel for Verizon.
To quote the article:
“The revised document demonstrates that not only is the FCC policy process going to be a sham, but it is being done with the active steering of special interest groups. Big Cable sends suggestions for changes to the FCC, FCC chair Ajit Pai makes those changes or adds in questions and asks for public comments, and then the FCC only considers the responses that support the cable industry's desired answer to the question asked in the first place. It's so blatant it's extraordinary.”
After the manhandling of a reporter by FCC security people, this whole FCC operation now reminds me of the National Socialist Party of the 1920’s and 30’s in Germany and how they handled dissent from their plans. Ajit Pai needs to be removed from his position. He does not have the interest of the American people as his first priority. Big business is in charge. I hope this is not indicative of what we can expect from our government for the next 3.5 years…but I fear it is.
I have never said this before, but I beg you to read this first article to understand what is happening here. It is important. We do not want special interests to control the Internet. –JRC
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