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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:43PM (5 children)
Of course I can gripe. I don't want to register a drone. The loss of net neutrality is a bummer, though I can see why conservatives don't support it: over the last year especially, the net has been anything but neutral from an end-user perspective, with lots of conservative people being demonetized (youtube) hidden (twitter) and banned all over.
On the other hand:
Black unemployment is at a 20-year low. Hispanic unemployment is at the lowest level in US history. Illegal aliens (of all races, etc.) are getting tossed out. The economy is on target to have just shy of 4% growth this year, despite Obama saying that it was impossible to even get 3%. Trump promised to remove 2 regulations for every one added... and technically "failed" because it is 22 removed for every one added. We're building pipelines with American steel. Obama said coal jobs weren't coming back, but now we're opening new mines and hiring mining engineers (good jobs) and shipping coal to China. Obama said factory jobs weren't coming back, but factory job growth has been the highest since it was first tracked back in 1996. Not having a wall is like not having a lock on your house... it's a really basic precaution that stops most of the trouble. Of course we must have a wall. Not that the situation before Obamacare was wonderful, but Obamacare has been killing our economy. Normal orderly working-class families (man, wife, 2 kids, job...) were paying the punishment tax because they couldn't afford the premiums and didn't get subsidies. The influx of Muslim invaders is down about 95%... it ought to be negative, but the improvement has been huge.
That is no regression. That is progress, hope, and change. America is going to be great again, even if you can't stand that.
We haven't had a president as good as Trump in at least 40 years. Actually, I can't think of a better one ever, but there might be one I'm forgetting.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:01PM (1 child)
I haven't read such a wall of bullshit in a looong time.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:24PM
For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement.svg [wikipedia.org]
You're clearly in one of the yellow, orange, or red zones. Are you saying that my text is bullshitty sounding (yellow zone) or that I'm a bullshitter (red zone)?
It appears you don't like my message, but can't actually find fault with it because facts are facts.
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:34PM (2 children)
Thank you for your tremendous support!
Believe me, now that net neutrality is gone you are going to make a lot of money on Youtube. Because our kids are going to stop watching the ISIS Internet sites. And they're going to go to Youtube instead. And other American sites. I don't know about Twitter, they're very UNGRATEFUL. Because I've done a lot for them. If it wasn't for me, they wouldn't have a company. But they did what they call a shadow ban. Where they hid my tweets, some of my tweets. I think sometimes they forget they're an American company, on the American Internet. Maybe now that net neutrality is done, they'll remember.
A lot of people voted for Obama because he promised to support CLEAN COAL. He lied. And did a lot of damage to our coal industry. And our economy. Like saying that carbon dioxide is pollution. It's not pollution, the plants need it. It's like food for them. He said "no" to the Keystone XL. Putting our oil supply in danger. We had that leak from the Keystone Pipeline, it was a problem. If we had the Keystone XL, it wouldn't have been a problem. Because our oil could go through the Keystone XL. While the Keystone Pipeline was getting fixed. We need all the pipelines. Because accidents happen. If you only have one pipeline and something happens, you're out of luck. Look at what happened in Austria.
Obama did deport a lot of illegals. That's because he had massive numbers coming in. Because our borders were OUT OF CONTROL. They still are, believe me. We need the Wall, as you know. And we need to cut back massively on the legal immigration. The lottery and the chain migration. Look at what happened in San Bernardino. Look what happened in San Francisco. Look what happened in New York City. Immigrants are bringing crime. They're terrorists. If you take away the immigrants, we have very little terrorism.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:50PM (1 child)
When will You be gone?
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @03:57AM
This is one of the greatest users on here.