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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @03:39AM (1 child)
RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST
There I feel so much better. My enorphins are flowing. Look at how morally superior I am.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @06:30PM
Yes. Being an authoritarian follower generally has that effect. I just wasn't certain you actually were a left-wing authoritarian follower. Might you be a right-wing authoritarian follower?
Either way, I'm glad that comment made you feel morally superior. Because whether you are left or right-wing, sarcastic or not, you are certainly virtue signalling.