The FCC’s new Chairman Ajit Pai has wasted no time in trying to gut net neutrality.
From NYT via MSN
From the story:
Mr. Pai took a first swipe at net neutrality rules designed to ensure equal access to content on the internet. He stopped nine companies from providing discounted high-speed internet service to low-income individuals. He withdrew an effort to keep prison phone rates down.
Gotta keep screwing those prisoners, too…
Mr. Pai, a former lawyer for Verizon, was elevated by Mr. Trump to the position of chairman after serving as a minority Republican member for the past three years. Known for being a stickler on conservative interpretations of telecom law and the limits of the F.C.C.’s authority, Mr. Pai said he was trying to wipe the slate clean.
Another gator for the swamp.
Mr. Pai will have the help of powerful members of Congress, who have promised to attack the classification of broadband as a utility like service. And he is popular among Republican leaders, including the Senate’s majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who with other members viewed Mr. Pai as a loyal voice of dissent during the Obama years. At 44 and the child of immigrants from India who settled in Kansas, Mr. Pai is a fresh face for the Republican Party.
Congress could introduce legislation that limits the agency’s ability to regulate broadband providers and enforce net neutrality rules. Also under attack are privacy rules for broadband providers. In his first days, Mr. Pai scrapped a proposal to break open the cable box market.
More corporate greed. That guy Trump is really on the working person’s side… /S
The nightmare barrels on… Every day a new stream of dreck from the BS Administration...