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Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by wildmusings »

inetknght wrote: post #90
ordinaryperson wrote: post #7

The revocation of the Net Neutrality rules became a foregone conclusion once Donald Trump was elected. The sad reality is there's not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it. There are 5 FCC commissioners but only 3 may be of the same party. Ajit Pai, Brendan Carr and Michael O'Rielly are locks to vote in favor, so it will pass, 3-2. At this point the best thing people can do is prepare to vote in…

> The sad reality is there's not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it. If Ajit Pai continues to obstruct investigations, I would consider it obstruction of justice. That's something that an Attorney General should seriously consider in the current light.

A state AG has no authority to investigate a federal official for his official actions. The federal government is the superior sovereign and has the sole power to police itself. This is nothing but political grandstanding by Schneidermann.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by ghrifter »

nindalf wrote: post #73
creaghpatr wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, and why shouldn't he?

Because accepting a job at a firm immediately after shifting government rules in its favour is corruption. Its absurd to claim that the government work was impartial when so many regulators end up taking advantage of the revolving door between government and industry.

Ok, so you lose your job due to your commission expiring, or you get replaced by a new administration.

but you cant be a lobbyist

so what do you work for? other goverment jobs, or back to the private sector.

what if we had a google exec become some internet government position, then went back to google? would there be this public outcry?

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by buerkle »

krrrh wrote: post #75
rottyguy wrote: post #41

Are there any legitimate arguments for anti-net neutrality proponents? Or is it just more "republicans prefer less regulations"?

You can hear Pai defend his position here: http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/21/ajit-pai-net-neutrality-po... He claims that 80% of smaller ISPs have said that they delayed investment in infrastructure due to the costs associated with the net neutrality regs, and also that there was a reduction in overall broadband investment in the last two years and that has never happened before, outside of a recession. He thinks tha…

His claims about lack of investment after the 2015 rule changes are wrong. https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/05/17/sorry-chairman-pai...

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by IvyMike »

mikestew wrote: post #48
ordinaryperson wrote: post #7

The revocation of the Net Neutrality rules became a foregone conclusion once Donald Trump was elected. The sad reality is there's not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it. There are 5 FCC commissioners but only 3 may be of the same party. Ajit Pai, Brendan Carr and Michael O'Rielly are locks to vote in favor, so it will pass, 3-2. At this point the best thing people can do is prepare to vote in…

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is a former Verizon lawyer and probably plans to parley his government experience into a lucrative gig at one of the big telcos I don’t care if he was a professional kitten killer, it has little relevance to actions currently being taken. I say this for two reasons: Pai has spent more time in public service than he did at Verizon, by multiples. And second, who cares what his motivation is? Does…

> And second, who cares what his motivation is?

Knowing his motivations (is he simply misinformed? is he corrupt? does he believe in strict libertarianism?) has a big impact in shaping a winning strategy to oppose him.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by tzs »

ordinaryperson wrote: post #7

The revocation of the Net Neutrality rules became a foregone conclusion once Donald Trump was elected. The sad reality is there's not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it. There are 5 FCC commissioners but only 3 may be of the same party. Ajit Pai, Brendan Carr and Michael O'Rielly are locks to vote in favor, so it will pass, 3-2. At this point the best thing people can do is prepare to vote in…

> At this point the best thing people can do is prepare to vote in 2018 and 2020, whether that's registering voters or forming groups to get lazy liberals or independents to vote to send better people to Washington.

There should be some effort to get more moderate Republicans involved. There are plenty of Republicans who support net neutrality, but do not consider that as important an issue as other issues on which Republicans and Democrats differ, such as immigration, taxes, gun rights, abortion, and many others.

I think that most of the less moderate Republican voters who oppose net neutrality mostly do so because their representatives and party officials tell them to. It's not like, say, their opposition to abortion which they came to on their own and then used that to help choose their party.

If that is true, it should be possible to move the GOP to a place where net neutrality is something that a Republican candidate can either support or oppose and still have a chance of winning a GOP primary or caucus.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by ghrifter »

hysan wrote: post #69

I'm one of the people who has had part of their identity used to submit false comments. Found out when a journalist emailed me asking me to do a survey and some additional comments months ago. I proceeded to sign up for an API key[1] to confirm what was being claimed and turns out, it was true. The API is a bit limited, but I was also able to do searches using the falsely submitted comment to find others like it as w…

The FCC has effectively ignored the rules and stalled their way to victory.

Nawh, they are following the power delegation given to them by congress. They dont have to do fuck all for public comments, other then recieve them, document them, and say "we got feedback but fuck yall we going forward"

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by criddell »

creaghpatr wrote: post #42
criddell wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I were a betting man, I would absolutely bet that he works in the telecom industry after his stint at the FCC. He might not work as a lobbyist, but there are a lot more jobs than that open for a person with his knowledge and contacts.

Sure, and why shouldn't he?

Now you're confusing me.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by batmansmk »

If you are ready to steal identities at large scale, don't you think you are capable of faking logs, bribing judges and do whatever you want as well?

It's funny to see how trustful we are in America that the rules will save us all from people not playing by the same rules. Changing the referee is the real solution right? Impeachment should be the focus.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by wildmusings »

nxc18 wrote: post #28

How is refusing to participate in an identity theft investigation not obstruction of justice? Surely Ajit & co travel to NY from time to time... why isn’t there an arrest warrant? Why are the states being so toothless in responding to rampant criminal behavior? I’d like to see how I would fare if I participated in mass scale identity theft and refused to participate in the subsequent investigation.

The federal government is the superior sovereign and does not have any obligation to answer to a state investigation.

Further, withholding cooperation from an investigation is not obstruction of justice, it is your God-given right as an American. You generally only have the obligation to cooperate when you are presented with a court order. And even then, you have the right to challenge the validity of that court order.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by moosey »

brightball wrote: post #78

I wonder what it would take to really create ISP competition in the US? I thought I remembered seeing somewhere that the big ISP's use the legal system to essentially drive up entrance costs for smaller players. Would the EFF be able to help with something like that? The only real long term solution to stuff like this is more competition, because without it you never have the option to "vote with your wallet."

We've had it before, and the way forward is very simple: Internet Service resale at cost.

The major internet providers would be forced to resell to other internet providers access at the costs to the company, including labor, maintenance, etc. Resellers then compete with the company to produce the lowest overhead.

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