GravitasNet Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Hacker NewsEx-FCC Chair Ajit Pai is now a wireless lobbyist–and enemy of cable companies
#HackerNews #ExFCCChair #AjitPai #WirelessLobbyist #CableCompanies #TechPolicy #Lobbying
Ars Technica NewsEx-FCC Chair Ajit Pai is now a wireless lobbyist—and enemy of cable companies https://arstechni.ca/sVN8 #CitizensBroadbandRadioService #Features #ajitpai #Policy #CBRS #CTIA
Rob PegoraroWeekly output: next-gen philanthropy, new FCC priorities
If you’re reading this somewhere around the greater Washington area and a) want to say hi in person and b) want to come home with some of the tech-event swag I’ve accumulated over the last two years, head out to Fairfax Saturday afternoon for the joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society, Washington Apple Pi, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. The event starts at 1 p.m., and my talk unpacking 2025’s tech plot twists begins at 2 p.m.
5/6/2025: Millennials Are Shifting What Counts as Philanthropy, Worth
I wrote my first piece for this publication in more than a year. I shouldn’t have taken that long, but it seems I needed to run into one of Worth’s editors at an AI conference in Vegas to renew those ties.
5/7/2025: In Setting Priorities, New FCC Chair Happy to Be ‘Moving on Trump Time’, PCMag
I spent Tuesday afternoon at the wireless-industry trade group CTIA’s conference in D.C. and decided that FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s friendly conversation with CTIA CEO and president (and former FCC chair) Ajit Pai was the newsiest bit for PCMag readers.
5/12/2025: Updated this post to add a mention of the other host of Saturday’s event, the longstanding Apple users group Washington Apple Pi.
#AjitPai #BrendanCarr #charity #CTIA #donations #GenZ #millennials #philanthropy #spectrumPolicy
MikeYou can start with the fact that #AjitPai is a fucking asshole. That should be thing one to know about #NetNeutrality.
Five things to know about the return of net neutrality rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to vote Thursday to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules. Here’s what you need to know: What is net neutrality? Net neutrality refers to the principle that internet service providers should treat all information that travels through their networks equally. Under the FCC’s proposed rules, providers would be barred…
Cory Doctorow#5yrsago The strange and complex world of flame-effect LED bulbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuppeUZ6Z7w
#5yrsago Ships are just giant floating computers, filled with #ransomware, #BadUSB, and worms https://www.ics-shipping.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/guidelines-on-cyber-security-onboard-ships-min.pdf
#5yrsago #AjitPai killed #NetNeutrality and Trump gave away a huge tax break; #Verizon got billions and killed 10,000 jobs https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa5x4z/verizon-trims-10000-employees-despite-billions-in-tax-cuts-and-government-favors
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UPDATED LED Flicker Flame/Fire Effect bulbs REVIEW
The idea that your ISP should prioritize its preferred data over *your* preferred data is as absurd as the idea that a taxi-driver should slow down your rides to any pizzeria except Domino's, which has paid it for "premium service." If your cabbie circled the block twice every time you asked for a ride to Massimo's Pizza, you'd be rightly pissed - and the cab company would be fined.
Back when #AjitPai was Trump's FCC chairman, he made killing Net Neutrality his top priority.
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LisPi@pluralistic Is #AjitPai going to receive any formal accusations for that blatant national & critical infrastructure sabotage btw?
This is a problem you don't fix with your wallet, but with a ballot. Effective, public-interest-motivated regulators are a political choice. #Trump appointed the cartoonishly evil #AjitPai to run the FCC, who oversaw a program of neglect and malice. Pai - a former Verizon lawyer - dismantled Net Neutrality after receiving millions of obviously fraudulent comments, lying about it, and obstructing the NY Attorney General's investigation into the matter:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/31/and-drown-it/#starve-the-beast
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