Ajit Pai: How the FCC Is Paving the Way for Innovation

He won't speak at any tech conferences so now I guess he has to go to places that won't challenge him on his positions. Basically conservative rally (CPAC/ NRA). The NRA (National Rifile Association) oddly just gave him an award for "saving the internet". [1]

sigh. I think the internet was functioning quite well before he "saved" it.

[1]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/nra-gives-ajit-p...

I find it bizarre that we mix infrastructure and regulation with politics.

American Conservative Union giving out awards to non-partisan government institution representatives strikes me as inappropriate.

*Not from the US so I likely don't understand the nuances of the situation.

The monopoly telecoms get tons of money from the government. The point of the regulations is to protect the taxpayer's money that they are using in the name of "narrowing the digital divide". They have always been doing a poor job at narrowing the divide, why assume we can trust a for-profit organization to do the right thing on their own? I doubt that increased competition will create enough profit for these monopoly telecoms to move into sparsely populated, lower income areas of America.

Can we just booooo? Brandolini's law...