The FCC’s craven net neutrality vote announcement makes no mention of the 22 million comments filed

The FCC’s craven net neutrality vote announcement makes no mention of the 22 million comments filed

7 years ago
Anonymous $ZOEEBQ1zf0

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/21/the-fccs-craven-net-neutrality-vote-announcement-makes-no-mention-of-the-22-million-comments-filed/

For someone who claims to be working for the American people, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sure doesn’t seem to care what they have to say. In his announcement today that the Commission would vote whether to roll back net neutrality rules on December 15, he made no mention of the inconvenient and embarrassing fact that his proposal had attracted historic attention, garnering over 22 million comments — the majority of which opposed it.

The statement mentions benefiting or protecting consumers five times, so clearly the idea here is to help the users of internet services. Yet those very same consumers wrote the Chairman by the million to say that they felt the existing rules protect them very well and that to remove them would be detrimental to their safety and privacy.