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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:04PM (2 children)
How can there be so many fools on SN? It boggles the mind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:47PM
He explicitly argued reclassification as title i (info) services is necessary to allow competition from many players, and this was the only tangible benefit he mentioned.
There is no other interpretation.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:06PM
actually, only 25% of all people are fools ("retarded" is the technical term), and this statistic is of course in effect here @ SN. unfortunately, an average retard produces 400% more verbal output than an average normal person, which is a pretty good way to detect them, but does tend to tilt the discussion into the make-belief territory. moreover, about 25% of all retards (6.25% of total) are additionally trumptards, and just one of these stellar individuals is capable of making the whole forum look like a white nationalist banner. but fear not, intrepid surfer, with only 14 electrodes in your brain (that's 16 fewer than the next leading brand!) you can get a trump-block wired into your sub-conscience. with only 65% of all traffic dedicated to spying on your dreams, this amazing technology will process & clean up your entire stream of consciousness @ their magnificent tax-free cloud server facility placed outside of pesky business-crushing privacy-respecting jurisdictions. in fact, their flexible filters will allow you to zap absolutely any kind of viewpoint and opinion before it reaches your frontal lobe, so that you are free to ponder about the deepest life questions without the annoying buzzing of facts in the background.
this postis dedicated to aristarchus [soylentnews.org], and everyone else who came into this life expecting to see quality editorial work in the wild.