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In an interview just prior to leaving the FCC this month, former Commissioner Mignon Clyburn took aim at the agency where she worked for nearly nine years, saying it has abandoned its mission to safeguard consumers and protect their privacy and speech.
Clyburn, a net neutrality proponent who served as interim FCC chief in 2013, equated the FCC's mission to the Starfleet Prime Directive, saying the agency's top priority is to ensure "affordable, efficient, and effective" access to communications—a directive it has effectively deserted under the new administration, working instead to advance the causes of "last-mile monopolies."
Clyburn spoke to Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin during a phone interview shortly before she left the agency this month.
"I'm an old Trekkie," she said. "I go back to my core, my prime directive of putting consumers first."
Clyburn said that, whereas some of her colleagues shied away from their role as a government regulator, she had embraced it, particularly when it came to internet service providers (ISPs).
"Let's face it," she told Ars, ISPs are "last-mile monopolies."
"In an ideal world, we wouldn't need regulation," Clyburn continued. "We don't live in an ideal world, all markets are not competitive, and when that is the case, that is why agencies like the FCC were constructed. We are here as a substitute for competition."
Source: https://gizmodo.com/fcc-commissioner-says-the-agency-is-a-shill-for-isps-as-1826203464
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday May 24 2018, @10:51PM (4 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday May 24 2018, @11:34PM
Tut-tut, FatPhil! Incite to violence against unchecked capitalism while enjoying free public transport safe from BMW pricks? That's what a commie will do.
(large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Touché) by tizan on Friday May 25 2018, @12:57AM (2 children)
Its tools of another era v/s a government armed with tools of mass destruction
The amendment you are talking about is out of date and useful only to keep gun manufacturers in business. Sure guns are useful for hunting or range target practice and for nuts to kill kids...not useful to overturn a bad government today as the said amendment was designed for (being a government with soldiers with guns only).
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 25 2018, @02:46AM (1 child)
Our Founding Fathers hated their King. Because he kept his army around even when there was no war (they called it peace). And for many reasons. So they said, let's have a part time army, let's only have an army when we have a war. Not a "standing army." We'll have guys that know how to shoot, they won't work in the military as their regular job. They'll be farmers, real estate guys, many things. And when we have a war we'll call them. The militia. But fortunately, nobody listened. We have an army all the time. And we need to, because we have wars all the time. And because so many Countries have a Nuclear Button, so we need a much bigger & more powerful one. A Button that works very very reliably and very very quickly!!
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday May 25 2018, @05:31AM
Dear President Trump:
My fear is our "enemy" will not nuke us. They will buy us!
Now, why would any modern enemy want to sully our farmland with nuclear fallout?
Just get us into debt, then foreclose!
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]