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The Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official. Here’s How That Could Affect You.

Net Neutrality rules that required internet service providers to offer equal access to all web content are no longer in effect as of Monday.

www.nytimes.com

June 11, 2018 is “a date which WILL live in infamy”!

What’s up next? Selling your browser history and personal data #PWNED

This is why voting matters. RESIST. Register to VOTE. VOTE. Repeal and Replace Republicans in 2018 and 2020. #VoteDemocrat

The rules that were repealed

BLOCKING Internet service providers could not discriminate against any lawful content by blocking websites or apps. #InternetCensorship #FreeSpeech

THROTTLING Service providers could not slow the transmission of data because of the nature of the content, as long as it was legal. #PayToPlay

PAID PRIORITIZATION Service providers could not create an internet fast lane for companies and consumers who paid premiums, and a slow lane for those who didn’t. #FastLanes

Net Neutrality was based on “hypothetical harms and hysterical prophecies of doom.”, Ajit Pai, F.C.C. chairman

If it’s only “hypothetical” what could go wrong?

FACT: FCC chairman, Ajit Pai created a promotional video to Kill Net Neutrality with The Daily Caller. The woman smoking is Martina Markota, a producer who pushed the Hillary 'Pizzagate' conspiracy created by White Supremacists!

Will Pai follow up with Harlem Shake 2, the Death of Net Neutrality? Will AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Sprint and other members of the USTelecom lobby appear in the video? #PWNED

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FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segments and scripts

It was hard to avoid seeing the video posted last week showing local news stations reciting a “must-run” script about fake news from their parent company, Sinclair broadcasting, in eerie synchrony. It creeped out a dozen Senators so much that they asked the FCC to look into it — and Chairman Ajit Pai has responded, saying that’s not going to happen.

techcrunch.com

Lies are the new Facts #Orwellian #GOPComplicit

Ajit Pai doesn’t care about the public interest — he killed Net Neutrality. He’d definitely kill CNN’s license. He’d never prosecute a broadcaster who is Pro-Republican and Pro-Trump. No matter how bat sh*t crazy they were.

The Senators’ letter, which you can read here, expresses concern that Sinclair is clearly using its power over local news stations to advance a political agenda at a national level:

“The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is responsible for ensuring that broadcast licensees use the public airwaves to serve the public interest. We call on the FCC to investigate whether Sinclair’s production of distorted news reports fails the public interest test.”

#WeCallBS #PropagandaMachine #MinistryOfTruth

“In light of my commitment to protecting the First Amendment and freedom of the press, I must respectfully decline.”, Ajit Pai, fcc chairman

“The real issue is that if Sinclair is systematically distorting the news that appears on its stations, that should be investigated as a potential violation of its FCC-issued broadcast license.”

And as icing on the cake, they bring up the fact that Sinclair ought to be under extra scrutiny since it is in the

middle of a merger that would give it unprecedented reach in broadcast,
FCC is also accused by many of favoring Sinclair in particular with some of its deregulatory policies.

FACT: FCC chairman, Ajit Pai dances with woman who pushed 'Pizzagate' conspiracy

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Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms

The FCC put out a call for local officials to fill a 30-person board. It chose two of them.

www.thedailybeast.com

Under Trump, businesses now run the government!

Why pay lobbyists such as USTelecom, when you can infiltrate the government and get a seat at the table making policy decisions.

As carrja99 points out, the FCC is now a “Captured Agency“. Don’t forget, Trump wants to ax 19 federal agencies.

Sixty-four city and state officials were nominated for the panel, but the agency initially chose only two: Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California, and Kelleigh Cole from the Utah Governor’s Office

Instead the FCC loaded the 30-member panel with corporate executives, trade groups and free-market scholars.

Pai BS

“I wish we could accommodate everybody of course but that’s just not possible with a limited advisory committee that we’ve got.”, Ajit Pai FCC Chairman

Regulatory Capture and Captured Agencies

Other agencies that have been captured: EPA, FDA, Interior...?

Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.[1]

When regulatory capture occurs, the interests of firms or political groups are prioritized over the interests of the public, leading to a net loss to society as a whole. Government agencies suffering regulatory capture are called "captured agencies".

Source: news.ycombinator.com