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posted by mrpg on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-neutrality-no-data dept.

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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


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by julian on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:49PM

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:49PM (#609943)

    There is absolutely nothing stopping you from being an anti-theocratic liberal in good standing with the wider community. I manage to do it with ease. I'll admit that WRT Islam it's particularly tricky because a great many of Islam's critics are genuine bigots. They're not trying to rid the world of conservative religious oppression--in fact many are trying to enforce their own brand of religious totalitarianism under the perversely-termed drive for "religious freedom". Yes, Mohamed was a bigoted child molester; and so is Roy Moore. If you think either of their ideologies are so perfect that you're justified forcing them on me then I don't want you government.

    The white-guilt-sjw-crazy-gender-campus-activists tar that conservatives attempt to smear over the entire left is mostly a fiction of their own fevered imaginations. What happens in a few departments on a few campuses isn't affecting rural Missouri. The fact that they've been fooled into being afraid of the coastal snowflakes really belies their claim not to be absolute pussies in the culture war. I'm not afraid of gun-toting conservative rubes who roll around on the floor and shake snakes every Sunday. But they seem to be absolutely terrified that their children might have a gay friend, or shock-horror, turn out to be gay themselves. Home of the brave it ain't.

    There's still nothing stopping you from saying any of these things, or many crazier ideas, as long as you don't cross over into outright incitement of violence or harm against individuals or groups of people. Why do so many conservatives have a hard time coloring within the lines? You can even espouse Nazism on Twitter as long as your genocidal tendencies remain abstract; but start advocating actually reimplementing the final solution and you'll be banned. The real world gave us a gruesome example this year: you can have a Nazi parade but you can't drive your car into the counter-protesters (who outnumbered the Nazis, btw).

    And if you cite Alex Jones authoritatively on any subject other than the insane depravity of Alex Jones then I no longer have to take you seriously on any topic.

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