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.
Additional information at Politico and Reuters.
(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.