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FCC blasted for "shameful" ruling against cities and fire department:
The Federal Communications Commission is in another dispute with the fire department that fought for net neutrality rules after being throttled by Verizon during a wildfire response.
The Santa Clara County Central Fire Protection District, along with the cities of Los Angeles and New York, last week asked the FCC to extend a deadline for filing comments on the last remaining piece of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's net neutrality repeal. Pai had to seek another round of public comments on the net neutrality repeal and related deregulation of the broadband industry because federal judges who upheld the overall repeal ruled that Pai "failed to examine the implications of its decisions for public safety."
The fire department and cities said they couldn't meet the FCC's comments deadline because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the FCC refused to grant more time for filing comments in an order issued yesterday, resulting in condemnation from the Santa Clara County Fire Department, Democrats, and consumer advocates.
"When the Trump FCC repealed net neutrality two years ago, it completely ignored public safety," US Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) said. "Santa Clara County firefighters paid a steep price when Verizon throttled their data speeds as they fought the worst fire in California's history, and the County was helpless to resolve the issue... Now, when these same first responders of the Santa Clara County Fire Department are requesting a very reasonable extension to file their comments in the FCC's order because they are on the front lines in responding to the worst pandemic of our lifetimes, Chairman Pai has ignored their pleas. The FCC's decision is shameful, offensive, and dangerous. The FCC must rethink this decision immediately."
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2020, @11:01PM (6 children)
They don't report news like this while the biological attack is being carried out.
In times like this invented crisis, people are being actively murdered using a silent and invisible weapon. Americans have already been trained to raise their arms so that a government thug can touch them at airports. Now they rolled out lock downs and the next step is curfew. Then come the gun confiscations. Buy guns and bury them in safe places where your governments cannot find them. Then when finally the survivors of the biological attack are allowed to get out and work for the bosses, go to your weapons cache and arm yourselves. It was all predicted (loosely) in "The Turner Diaries".
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2020, @11:11PM (5 children)
Yeah, "loosely" as in "So loosely you have to be a fucking paranoid schizophrenic and think you hear alien voices in your head to imagine there is any resemblance at all."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Wednesday April 22 2020, @11:37PM (2 children)
"So loosely you have to be a fucking paranoid schizophrenic and think you hear alien voices in your head to imagine there is any resemblance at all."
Sorry to say, but probably about 1/4- 1/3 of America's population actually believes this kind of stuff. This whole country has gone nuts.
(Score: 2) by OrugTor on Thursday April 23 2020, @04:05PM (1 child)
A large part of the country has been nuts for quite some time but until Trump it didn't seem to matter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2020, @02:54AM
He's a lightning rod that got wired into the house mains...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 23 2020, @01:52AM (1 child)
Don't forget Nostradamus. In his crazy drug induced ramblings, you can find "proof" of anything and everything. Who needs the Turner Diaries, when you can fall back on Nostradamus?
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday April 23 2020, @05:40AM
Gotta admit, Nostradamus is brilliant, you can interpret, after the event obviously, anything you want back into his "predictions".