Surprising no one who was paying attention. Similarly there will be no consequences to this action, which will also not come as a surprise to anyone who was paying attention.
I agree the possibly criminal behavior in the NN repeal has been known for a long time, but the fact the FBI actually believe it's criminal enough to investigate is definitely new.
The implication I assume is that we’ve all been down this road before.
“We’ll investigate.”
“Here’s the report. We recommend minimal/no action.”
guess the Telecoms or their lobbyists hired some small sketchy 3rd party PR/astroturfing firms to do this, and those people will take the fall but blow back to AT&T, Comcast, Verizon will be minimal. Eventually some judge will chastise the FCC in a ruling, while also doing nothing to overturn the policy change, but perhaps forcing some vague fixes for the commenting system going forward.
Lets not pile on the cynicism, if absolutely nothing was going to happen, there wouldn't even be an investigation in the first place.
Let's not pretend most crimes result in punishment, especially at this level of business and government. Cynicism sucks, but I prefer it to blissful ignorance.
How many suspected crimes at this level, once investigated, end up with no significant consequences to the suspects? How does that rate compare to crime in general?