For someone who claims to be working for the American people, Ajit Pai sure doesn’t seem to care what they have to say. In his announcement today that the FCC would vote whether to roll back net neutrality rules on December 15, he made no mention of the inconvenient fact that his proposal had attracted historic attention, garnering over 22 million comments — the majority of… Read More
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FCC will vote whether to delete net neutrality on December 14
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today made good on his long-standing pledge to tackle regulations established in the last administration designed to protect the distribution of internet content. On Tuesday Pai distributed a draft of his suggested rule changes under the auspices of the “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” to the other commissioners at the FCC. The… Read More
The U.S. government is using Thanksgiving to hide its plans to destroy net neutrality
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There’s a simple art to releasing bad news — do it when the fewest people are looking.
That’s the game plan the U.S. government’s media regulator is reportedly following to release its plan to destroy net neutrality rules. The Federal Communications Commission is expected to drop its new plan on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. The rules could be voted on by mid-December, leaving the door open for internet providers to begin manipulating traffic.
It’s a devilishly brilliant plan by the FCC and its chairman, Ajit Pai, who has made no secret of his wish to undo the benchmark rules put in place during Barack Obama’s presidency. There will inevitably be plenty of people already enjoying their holiday break, and any major coverage on Wednesday will then be lost to a day of turkey, gravy, football, and indigestion, followed by three more days in which people won’t be looking at the news. Read more…
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The Federal Communications Commission will drive a stake through its own net neutrality rules roughly this time next month, if Chairman Ajit Pai gets his way. Sources at Bloomberg and Reuters say the FCC’s head honcho will showcase plans next week for a vote to repeal a 2015 order regulating web traffic throttling. If Pai gets his way, the vote will go down just ahead of winter… Read More
Top media watchdog accused of playing dirty to help Trump’s friend
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The allegations are explosive: Ajit Pai, President Donald Trump’s hand-picked head of the main U.S. media regulator, has been changing regulations to fuel the expansion of a right-wing, pro-Trump media giant across the U.S.
If true, the actions would represent nothing less than a major corruption scandal with the goal of pushing pro-Trump media to millions of Americans without them knowing.
The evidence? Well, it’s been laid out by 13 Democratic senators who are calling for an investigation. They allege that Pai, head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which governs media ownership in the U.S., has changed important rules in order to allow Sinclair Broadcasting—a quiet giant in U.S. media, particularly around local TV—to expand significantly. Read more…
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