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California man arrested for threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's family over net neutrality
A 33-year-old resident of Norwalk, California was arrested today for sending threatening emails to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai last year, according to the US Department of Justice. The threats, sent by an individual named Makara Man, were made primarily in the second of three messages sent to Pai's official FCC email accounts in late December, just days after the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality protections.
The first email allegedly accused Pai of causing the suicide of a teenager through his actions that led to the net neutrality vote. The second email contained an explicit threat against members of Pai's family, as well as a listing of three locations in and around Arlington, Virginia where Pai is said to live. The third email allegedly contained a photo of Pai and a separate photo of Pai and his family.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 01 2018, @10:22PM (1 child)
Sure, one letter doesn't make a difference, even the HOR reps over 700,000 people, your letter is one among thousands.
But, by writing, you are heard hundreds of times louder than the constituents who don't write. It makes a difference, and when enough people get heard it can change positions on issues. The reps are absolutely bought and paid for, but they also need to get re-elected, so when an issue is hot with their constituency, sometimes they actually do listen to the voters instead of the lobbyists, at least on the hot-with-the-voters issues. There are plenty of issues that are completely off the voters' radar that reps can get their palm grease from.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @03:19AM
What Ajit Pai has proven is that no amount of letters is sufficient to do the right thing. There are few things that the government has done that are as universally unpopular as repealing net neutrality, which is why they had to stuff the comment box with fake comments and then refuse to validate that any of the pro-repeal comments were real. You've got dead people writing in as well as famous politicians that weren't in favor of repeal writing in and there's absolutely no interest by the FCC to get to the bottom of the fraud.
And why should he? The Democrats have demonstrated that they really don't care about winning elections, as evidenced by the continual refusal to acknowledge that the voters don't have to vote for them. And as long as Trump and the GOP remain in charge, his job is safe.