https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/29/fcc_chair_defends_net_neutrality_plans_by_attacking_cher/

Analysis Ajit Pai – the head of America's broadband watchdog, the FCC – has responded to widespread criticism of his plan to tear up net neutrality safeguards by… mocking celebrity tweets.

Perhaps we shouldn't expect more in the era of President Trump where Twitter spats replace policy debate and strawmen strangle analysis, but even so it was stark to hear the head of the federal telecoms regulator namecheck and mock singer Cher, and actors Kumail Nanjiani, Mark Ruffalo, Alyssa Milano and George Takei for their comments about proposed rules that will impact hundreds of millions of Americans' access to the internet.