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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, Redundant) by NotSanguine on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:34PM (1 child)
This from 2010, BTW. And apparently, you didn't even bother to read (or you didn't understand) the document. EFF endorsed Title II classification, which is what the 2015 order did:
You post a link (which isn't very recent, nor does it refute the argument you replied to) which was never relied upon to define regulation [fcc.gov] or the law [wikipedia.org].
Why are you attempting to derail the discussion with an irrelevant document (that contradicts your assertion), rather than relying the the *actual* regulations and law in question? It makes one question either your motives, your reading comprehension or both.
The latter would be sad and the former is cynical, intellectually dishonest and unethical.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by NotSanguine on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:38PM
Not sure how this posted twice.
Would someone please mod the second instance 'redundant'.
Thanks.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr