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posted by martyb on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the stubble-manliness dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:15AM (#701116)

    We can mod him Spam all we want; site admins apparently want him around as an interesting character.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 02 2018, @02:26AM

    You think you've figured a way to block every proxy, every ToR exit node, every VPN, and every ssh tunnel (even the ones not created yet), do you? You can not block an anonymous asshat with even a smidgen of a clue from a website except by disallowing all anonymous access. It's simply not possible. It's generally not even worth putting any effort into. Especially since this is a once a day or less on average annoyance.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.