FCC Sued for Not Being Transparent About Talks With ISPs A lawsuit has been filed against the FCC for its refusal to disclose Agency boss Ajit Pai's conversations with ISPs about subjects like net neutrality. Back in April, Gizmodo reports that a nonprofit called American Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) asking the FCC for all records related to communications on net neutrality between ISPs and Pai or his Pai's staff. The group asked for "correspondence, e-mails, telephone call logs, calendar entries, meeting agendas," and any other records of such communications, which the group says have subsequently been ignored.

Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, has consistently sided with giant media and telecom companies and against consumers in a litany of issues ranging from net neutrality to privacy. “The FCC has made it clear that they’re ignoring feedback from the general public, so we’re going to court to find out who they’re actually listening to about net neutrality," American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers said in the group's announcement of the suit. "If the Trump administration is going to let industry lobbyists rewrite the rules of the Internet for millions of Americans, we’re going to make them do it in full view of the public." Pai and his staff have also been accused of turning a blind eye to Pai and his staff have also been accused of turning a blind eye to fraudulent comments being posted to the net neutrality proceeding in the hopes of driving artficial support for Pai's extremely unpopular policies. That's another subject that's likely to pop up in the inevitable additional lawsuits filed against the agency after it votes to finalize killing the rules later this year.







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Nuggits

join:2008-10-03

Allston, MA 15 recommendations Nuggits Member F*cking finally [Pops popcorn]

n2jtx

join:2001-01-13

Glen Head, NY 10 recommendations n2jtx Member Russians Next thing you know they will find Pai has been talking to the Russians. It just gets funnier every day. Pai is bound and determined to screw over the U.S. consumers. Hopefully they can screw him back!

CosmicDebri

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join:2001-09-01

Lake City, FL 8 recommendations CosmicDebri Member We can't change his mind because he's so transparent on why he is a tool



"At an FCC oversight hearing with the House Commerce Committee this week, Democratic Rep. Michael Doyle challenged Pai to present any sort of willingness to consider the evidence offered by net neutrality supporters, Ars Technica reported.



“What kind of comment would cause you to change your mind?” Doyle asked.



Pai offered the mind-blowing response that he would need to see “economic analysis that shows credibly that there’s infrastructure investment that has increased dramatically” since the enactment of Barack Obama-era neutrality rules, or any evidence showing a future economy or consumers’ experience would be worse without the regulations."



ummmm..... none of that has to do with net neutrality??? So he's telling us that we don't have to show why all traffic should be treated equally, we have to show him that the isp's are spending more on infrastructure?? Maybe he should release those 45000 net neutrality complaints and let himself read them and see why our 'experience would be worse without the regulations'!



Source: » This from a Gizmodo article from yesterday:"At an FCC oversight hearing with the House Commerce Committee this week, Democratic Rep. Michael Doyle challenged Pai to present any sort of willingness to consider the evidence offered by net neutrality supporters, Ars Technica reported.“What kind of comment would cause you to change your mind?” Doyle asked.Pai offered the mind-blowing response that he would need to see “economic analysis that shows credibly that there’s infrastructure investment that has increased dramatically” since the enactment of Barack Obama-era neutrality rules, or any evidence showing a future economy or consumers’ experience would be worse without the regulations."ummmm..... none of that has to do with net neutrality??? So he's telling us that we don't have to show why all traffic should be treated equally, we have to show him that the isp's are spending more on infrastructure?? Maybe he should release those 45000 net neutrality complaints and let himself read them and see why our 'experience would be worse without the regulations'!Source: » gizmodo.com/fcc-chair-aj ··· 97286906

tshirt

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Snohomish, WA 8 recommendations tshirt Premium Member I heard Pai said Trump was a big loser! pass it on, he'll be gone at the first twitter before dawn

TIGERON

join:2008-03-11

Boston, MA 7 recommendations TIGERON Member And now comes the mountain-sized headaches that jackass does not want Lying sack of shit. These lawsuits are going to force Pai and O'Rielly to show the public what they are up to.



Fuck you asshole. Brim77

join:2012-03-16

Lansing, MI 6 recommendations Brim77 Member Good. Expose these cowards, make them do their dirty work in the spotlight. quisp65

join:2003-05-03

San Diego, CA 1 edit 2 recommendations quisp65 Member Ridiculous drama They are suppose to be talking to the ISPs and every company they affect. I hope they got them on speed dial! No one understands how Title II affects broadband deployment better than them.