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TechCrunch has written about the FCCs pre-emptive reaction to the new inspector general report regarding an alleged attack on the FCC comment system last year which the FCC had long alluded to concerning the net neutrality debate. The FCC now admits that the attacks never actually took place, after a report from its inspector general found a lack of evidence supporting the idea. Chairman Ajit Pai immediately turned around and blamed both the previous CIO and ... wait for it ... Obama.
Pai's statement was issued before the OIG publicized its report, as one does when a report is imminent that essentially says your agency has been clueless at best or deliberately untruthful at worst, and for more than a year. To be clear, the report is still unpublished, though its broader conclusions are clear from Pai's statement. In it he slathers Bray with the partisan brush and asserts that the report exonerates his office
TechCrunch is still waiting to hear back from the FCC and its Office of the Inspector General for more information, including the report itself.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday August 07 2018, @07:03PM (2 children)
The FCC lied. About feedback on an issue of national importance. Something that affects almost every American, and probably indirectly does affect every American.
Are there any Republicans who care? Will any speak up? Will any say this is, at a minimum, shameful?
Or does truth not matter as long as corporations can screw ordinary people*.
I mean, Republicans are quick to be outraged about Hillary Clinton's global child sex traffcking ring run out of the basement of a pizza shop in DC. So why aren't they as outraged about this? Or maybe they are and I'm just not hearing it?
* by ordinary people, I mean actual humans, not "corporations are people too".
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 07 2018, @07:18PM
Well, you see, when their guys lie, it's a Threat To Civilization. When our guys lie, it's just that OMGOMG! HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST TWEET? MOVE ON TO THE LATEST TWEET! WHO CARES ABOUT SOME PROBABLY WASTEFUL AND USELESS GOVERNMENT AGENCY? SQUIRREL !!111!!OneEleven!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:08AM
They won't open that can of worms. Next you'll have people demanding evidence for Russian interference in the elections and that will inevitably lead back to the Republicans. Same reason Trump didn't press that Hillary email server issue after a while. Putting a high standard for evidence in accountability tends to come back biting in you in the ass when you're a corporate shill.