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Several news sites are reporting that Donald Trump is looking to elevate Ajit Pai to head up the FCC:
Ajit Pai, a Republican Federal Communications Commission member and foe of net neutrality regulation, will be named to head the agency, according to a person familiar with the transition.
Pai has often dissented as FCC Democrats voted for tighter regulations, including the 2015 open internet, or net neutrality, decision that forbids internet service providers from unfairly blocking or slowing web traffic. The rule opposed by AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. is among those likely to be reversed by president Donald Trump's FCC, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysts.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by SpockLogic on Saturday January 21 2017, @02:00PM
A sad day for consumers.
We the people are fucked.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @02:17PM
I like to remind you, we said that about tom wheeler. Look what he gave us.
Lets just judge the person by their actions IN the office rather than succumbing to the 'the sky is falling' mentality of the news outlets that backed clinton.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Saturday January 21 2017, @02:28PM
Ajit Pai is not unknown to the community:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:soylentnews.org+ajit+pai [google.com]
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(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Saturday January 21 2017, @04:16PM
Perhaps he will "walk it back" like Perry did "after a briefing".
I'm not holding my breath...
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday January 21 2017, @04:23PM
Anti-net neutrality is hardly a fringe Republican position. Trump and the Party are on the same page for this one.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:04PM
You have a situation here where you are elevating a guy on the FCC board, and one who has been at odds with the other board members as well as the FCC Chair. You know exactly what you're getting here. The only way he "walks it back" is if Trump tells him to, but don't expect that since Trump was the one who picked him.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @02:27PM
What's that old saying? The net views censorship as damage and routes around it? I'm thinking it's easy to solve this by routing around or outright blocking bad actors but whether companies will is another story entirely.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Nerdfest on Saturday January 21 2017, @02:42PM
The thing is, you're going to pay extra to route around it at normal speeds. Maybe even more if it's not from a specific video supplier.
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @03:48PM
Nah, you screw your customers and they tend to find alternatives that you won't enjoy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @03:49PM
Don't be a dunce.
80% of the population suffers from a last-mile broadband duopoly.
And one of those choices is nearly always DSL which doesn't live up to the definition of broadband in a world where its common to have 2+ simultaneous HD netflix streams.
And that's before bandwidth caps.
You can't take another route when there is only one route.
Are you sorry yet? [areyousorryyet.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @03:52PM
Did you actually read what I said before arguing? You're agreeing with me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @05:23PM
You are one fucking amazing Poe's Lawyer.
Because I can't see one hint of irony in your original post.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:23PM
You're still not getting it. There was no irony. Routing around it in this case would be Netflix changing up server addresses regularly to avoid downgrades. What they should do though is cut service entirely to any ISP stupid enough to downgrade their streams. What I said never had anything to do with customers.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:05PM
You're still not getting it. There was no irony.
Oh I got it the first time.
You are just a damn fool.
What they should do though is cut service entirely to any ISP stupid enough to downgrade their streams. What I said never had anything to do with customers.
Hello?!? McFly? ISPs hold customers hostage. If Netflix cuts off their customers who suffers? Netflix. The customers just end up going to the ISP's in-house OTT service.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:52PM
You haven't paid much attention then. Dish/Direct TV have been having it out regularly with the content producers for years and it always gets settled and content provided again eventually.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:56PM
That's only because Dish and DirectTV have competition - not just between themselves, but cabletv and OTA.
For somebody who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, you are clearly misinformed.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:43PM
It doesn't matter if the cable/phone companies have competition. If they have masses of pissed off customers because of their actions, their actions will change. They know enough to not make it a winning proposition for a new ISP to come in with open pipes and take all their moneys.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22 2017, @01:02AM
I see. So now you are down to wishful thinking.
Lets say your wishes were horses.
And that it actually does work that way for the 800lb gorilla that is netflix.
What about the thousands of other small companies that don't have enough of a customer base to exercise this supposed leverage?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 22 2017, @12:14PM
The original statement you started arguing with explicitly stated they may very well not do it, slappy. Pay more attention.
And keep it straight: my wishes are fishes.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:29PM
I'm thinking it's easy to solve this by routing around or outright blocking bad actors but whether companies will is another story entirely.
The United States still has tremendous influence on the Internet. In 2008, one expert estimated that the country "carried" 25% of all Internet traffic. That, by my reading, may include traffic that has one or both end-points there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:49PM
Yes but you wouldn't be looking at the entire nation. You'd be looking individually at the specific bad actors.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @05:17PM
The only thing that changes is whos doing the fucking.
HOWEVER. For the first time in decades...
The guy at the top is saying 'wow, you guys have been getting fucked!'
Will he do something about it? I don't know. And neither do you...
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:17PM
The guy at the top is saying 'wow, you guys have been getting fucked!'
You're paraphrasing rather too loosely, I'd say. His exact words were:
I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
-- http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/07/donald_trump_2005_tape_i_grab_women_by_the_pussy.html [slate.com]