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Several news sites are reporting that Donald Trump is looking to elevate Ajit Pai to head up the FCC:
Ajit Pai, a Republican Federal Communications Commission member and foe of net neutrality regulation, will be named to head the agency, according to a person familiar with the transition.
Pai has often dissented as FCC Democrats voted for tighter regulations, including the 2015 open internet, or net neutrality, decision that forbids internet service providers from unfairly blocking or slowing web traffic. The rule opposed by AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. is among those likely to be reversed by president Donald Trump's FCC, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysts.
Additional information at Politico and Reuters.
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:29PM
I'm thinking it's easy to solve this by routing around or outright blocking bad actors but whether companies will is another story entirely.
The United States still has tremendous influence on the Internet. In 2008, one expert estimated that the country "carried" 25% of all Internet traffic. That, by my reading, may include traffic that has one or both end-points there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:49PM
Yes but you wouldn't be looking at the entire nation. You'd be looking individually at the specific bad actors.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.