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Net Nutrality is Over
| rip
| I heard that our last hope lies in Congress or the courts to rule this unconstitutional, how low we fallen.
| rip net neutrality.
| Nut
| Nut Nutrality
| Ajit Pai and the FCC are being sued by 18 Attorney Generals for fraud due to them ignoring the request to halt the vote during a criminal investigation.
The vote was just to agree to repeal the rules- it won't go into law until its approved by Congress, who can stop it with a simple majority. And then if it gets through that, it'll take several months to a year to go into affect.
A lot of shit could happen in that time frame.
| Isn't red tape wonderful?
| the one instance where government bs works in the people's favor
| >>66960
In fact, Ajit Pai's stubborness may have tightened the noose around his neck. The AG's just asked him to halt the vote until the investigation could prove whether fraud was present or not. But because he both ignored the AG's AND ignored a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request AND ignored the lawsuit filed after that was ignored, he looks hella guilty to everyone.
| The language has changed. People aren't looking to determine if fraud was involved, now he's being sued for fraud outright.
Pyrrhic Victory indeed.
| You got a source for all this?
| Ajit Pai in the FCC should be considered conflict of interests.
| I wonder if murder rates would increase by a good amount due to this mess.
| >>67031
Regarding the FOIA and the lawsuits over the refusal to comply with it in a timely manner: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/fake-net-neutrality-comments-at-heart-of-lawsuit-filed-against-fcc/
The Attorney General's office of 18 states attempt to get Pai to delay the vote while they investigate the claims of mass ID theft/impersonation: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/13/16773682/attorneys-general-net-neutrality-repeal-letter
| Website created to check if your information was illegally used as part of a series of robo-comments in favor of repealing Net Neutrality: https://ag.ny.gov/FakeComments
The actual text of the letter signed by 18 attorney generals asking Pai to delay the vote: https://www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ag_letter_12-13-2017.pdf
| At the time of this posting, the number of fake comments and ID's illegally used rose to well over 2 million reported countrywide: https://mobile.twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/media/grid?idx=12
| Link to the media report: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-releases-new-details-investigation-fake-net-neutrality-comments
| After the voting passed, the language has turned from investigating possible fraud, to suing the FCC *for* fraud: https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/941370862976012288/video/1
| RIP in peace. That said, what VPN service should I invest in?
| "I’ll be leading a multistate lawsuit bringing the resources of AGs across the country to bear in the fight to protect the internet and the millions of Americans who rely on it. #NetNeutrality" - Eric Schneiderman
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRB9Vx-VQAA6OY3.jpg
| On top of that, states are beginning to create their own Net Neutrality laws to bypass the repeal, even if the repeal were somehow successful.
Starting with Washington State: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/dec/13/washington-will-keep-net-neutrality-in-state-if-fc/
The FCC said that they will shut down any attempt by a state to accomplish this, but this also reveals a weakness in the actual power of the FCC.
| Welcomentofumtowm
| https://www.cnet.com/news/california-washington-take-action-after-net-neutrality-vote/ Because as you'll see from this article, the FCC, or more specifically, Ajit Pai, has a bad habit of lying through his teeth and making shit up.
| The problem with a lot of the drama flying around Net Neutrality is mostly misinformation. Like most politics, the reality is that everything is more complicated than they appear. It's not as simple as a simple "vote" deciding whether net neutrality sticks around or not, it's merely the start of darkness for the bad ending.
| Anyway, enjoy my sources. Feel free to look up more if you like- the internet is swimming in it.
| Another for you: https://www.wired.com/story/after-fcc-vote-net-neutrality-fight-moves-to-courts-congress/
Title is pretty self explanatory.
Also this: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/14/570526390/fcc-repeals-net-neutrality-rules-for-internet-providers
| "The FCC's dramatic course reversal in favor of Internet service providers has propelled the once-wonky issue of net neutrality into the mainstream, turning it into an increasingly political matter. Advocacy groups are expected to press Congress to stop the FCC's vote from taking effect under the Congressional Review Act.
The FCC's decision is otherwise slated to go into effect in the coming weeks, after a review by the Office of Management and Budget."
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| so when will the congress vote begin assuming thats how it works
| No idea yet. Probably going to be announced soon(tm).
| http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/14/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-vote/index.html
| "No matter what happens next, the repeal won't take effect until next year. It must first be formally approved by the Office of Management and Budget. An FCC representative told CNNMoney the process could take "several months.""
| uh, idk anything about us admin process but one of the sources above says the congress would need approval from the senate, the house, and the mf'ing potus, so uhhhhh...
oh well i'm not an american why should i care
| Im going to download 13TB's of porn
| 1030 gigs of facebook memes
| And preorder so much shit from Amazon
| porn < facebook memes
you are doing it wrong
| >>67802
That's to pass a bill. You don't need the President for Congress to bitchslap the FCC's repeal. They just need to have a simple majority.
| It's been dead since HISA became a utility.
| daily reminder that you can absolutely still spam your senators, reps, attorney generals, all that shit at this moment in time
its not a surprise the FCC voted this way
but we can still kick their ass
considering theyre being sued up the fucking piss and dick by the end of 2018 Ajit Pai will be living in a cave shitting in the corners eating mice
| i should also mention they have yet to explain why they took random peoples address, forged a comment on their website with their name an address in favor of the repeal, and are getting away with it
so thats another legal piss
| Mfw some of the people whose identities they stole were deceased.
| >>68098
yeah.. if you look at NY AG's press release, they had hand picked some complaints regarding fake comments that are either made by deceased people, minors, or elderly who don't know two things about computers.
| Here's a fun video that may relate to how to handle the argument that runs 8 seconds and was foind by SWIM
https://youtu.be/uZQVnXkNbU0
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| Damnit Obama