Net Neutrality

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[Wyote]

You still gonna pay $14.99 for Twitter tho

 

[Icedream]

we'll see.

 

[Icedream]

 

[Pin]

Too late. I saw this video 10 minutes ago.

 

[Icedream]

Too late. I saw this video 10 minutes ago.

shadup

 

[Reason]

That asshole might go to jail

 

[hush]

That asshole might go to jail

 

[Reason]

FCC boss Ajit Pai is being investigated by his own agency over potential corruption allegations.

The already-unpopular agency boss has been on a tear in recent months gutting decades old media-consolidation rules designed to protect consumers and the nation’s media markets from any one broadcaster becoming too powerful.

Pai’s efforts arrived, not coincidentally, at the same time Sinclair Broadcasting Group is attempting to acquire Tribune Media as part of a $3.9 billion dollar megamerger. It’s a deal a bipartisan chorus of critics say would demolish media diversity, resulting in Sinclair owning more than 230 local stations across 72 percent of the United States.

Given criticism of Sinclair for its often distorted and inaccurate news reporting, consumer advocates say the deal would have a profoundly negative impact on the quality and diversity of media discourse, as well as already dwindling competition in the space.

Without Pai’s assistance on this front, the Sinclair merger would have been impossible.

Now the New York Times indicates that the FCC’s Inspector General has launched an investigation into whether Pai acted inappropriately as he rushed to dismantle media consolidation rules.

Late last year, "the top internal watchdog for the F.C.C. opened an investigation into whether Mr. Pai and his aides had improperly pushed for the rule changes and whether they had timed them to benefit Sinclair," the report states.

 

[Icedream]

hecc ye

 

[sprinkles]

What baffles me is how he's been so flippant and smug all this time. Then all of a sudden they decide to cover up inside jokes about him being on the take. Not so funny now, Pai?

 

[Icedream]

Nothing good comes from meme killers

 

[Wyote]

 

[Icedream]

I can never un-see that now

 

[Wyote]

kinda the point

 

[Wyote]

lolol point

 

[jkxx]

Now that it's officially been killed off the resurrection begins..

 

[Icedream]

washington smh