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With days to go before his repeal of net neutrality rules, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai issued a press release about five small ISPs that he says were harmed by the rules. Pai "held a series of telephone calls with small Internet service providers across the country—from Oklahoma to Ohio, from Montana to Minnesota," his press release said.
[...] But Pai's announcement offered no data to support this assertion. So advocacy group Free Press looked at the FCC's broadband deployment data for these companies and found that four of them had expanded into new territory. The fifth didn't expand into new areas but it did start offering gigabit Internet service.
[...] According to the ISPs' ex parte filings, the only FCC staffers who participated in Pai's meetings with the ISPs were his spokespeople. The absence of staffers involved in research or policy, combined with the timing of the calls and Pai's press release, suggest that "these meetings occurred for the sake of managing public appearances rather than obtaining meaningful record evidence," Wood wrote.
Source: Ajit Pai offers no data for latest claim that net neutrality hurt small ISPs
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:31PM (8 children)
Rightards love it up the ass.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by julian on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:39PM (7 children)
I'm convinced some percentage of economic conservatism among the working classes is a form of sexual masochism. They experience a form of erotic pleasure from being financially dominated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:20PM (1 child)
I need to cultivate the respect for and skill of the language that you demonstrate so well here.
(same Anonymous you replied to)
(Score: 3, Touché) by julian on Friday December 15 2017, @05:01AM
It's the product of a wasted youth reading books instead of chasing girls; and a wasted adulthood, too, come to think about. Or in the event you were being sarcastic, so was I.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:38PM (2 children)
The other side spent the whole eight years on, well, domination; if you can attach any other name to the all-encompassing SJW activities, I applaud the flexibility of your logic.
A team which would limit its... activities to just messing with the subjects' pockets, feels downright tame in comparison.
(Score: 3, Touché) by julian on Friday December 15 2017, @04:17AM
Oh yeah, it was real torture for my brother to finally get health care. I'm so happy Trump is trying to lift that boot of regular cardiologist appointments from my brother's neck!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday December 15 2017, @06:45AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Funny) by TheGratefulNet on Friday December 15 2017, @05:34AM (1 child)
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday December 15 2017, @06:48AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves