Discussion: 'Net Neutrality' Foe Ajit Pai Is President Trump's New FCC Head

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Maybe we should just start a list of where we the American people are getting fcked and see how long it is at the end of the year. Anyone who voted for Rump will realize they totally fcked themselves over and he is not for them but for the corporations only.

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Don’t want the Trump supporters yet.

I want the ones who either sat out, voted 3p, didn’t vote top ballot, etc.

Those people are the future.

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High-speed lanes for the wealthy. Self-surgery for the poor.

Welcome to the Trump Years.

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There are two points I’m trying to better understand:

  1. Pai will require senate confirmation, at some point, though I think he is head of the FCC effective immediately? Not entirely sure how that works. (See: 1)

  2. The second point is that any change to net neutrality may (or may not …) take months – for hearings, public comment, etc. Since this isn’t so much breaking new ground, I’m skeptical there will be much happening here though …

Obviously, this is not good, but I think there’s time to contact senators.

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Pai opposed online privacy regulations that force broadband providers to ask consumers for permission before using their data, saying they are more onerous than the requirements for internet companies like Google and Facebook.

Oh, so if it’s okay for Google and Facebook to do bad shit, we’d better allow other companies to do bad shit. As opposed to stopping Google and Facebook from doing bad shit. The GOP: always so fair-minded.

Fair-minded until they start throwing out those grand ol’ party grand ol’ policies for individual people, that is, as opposed to incorporated “people”. After all, we all know that companies are people too, and therefore deserve all the same rights and protections (duh, why would anyone think that should not be the case?). Except that they’re more important than individual people, cause they make rich people richer, so therefore they actually deserve more protection because rich people are just… better! They’re the JOB CREATORS after all. That’s why trump put so many in his cabinet - JOB CREATORS will help make america great again!