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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: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:40PM
> Yeah when was Net Neutrality when Facebook labeled ACTUAL NEWS as FAKE NEWS last week? What good is it when you have assholes at Google/Facebook controlling shit behind the scenes with fucking shady algorithms to bury shit that made Clinton look bad during the election cycle?
That... has literally nothing to do with net neutrality. Not everything that happens on the Internet is covered by NN. Actually, pretty much nothing on the Internet is covered by NN. NN is about pipes, not stuff that goes through them.