Five Years Ago
This week in 2017, the chips started to fall in the wake of the net neutrality appeal. A tonedeaf video starring Ajit Pai led to one of those internet situations where everyone is wrong, while Pai was insisting net neutrality supporters were wrong about everything since Twitter hadn’t immediately died. Comcast began its push for a terrible new net neutrality law in earnest, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn was right on cue with a bill to make the FCC’s decision permanent. The NAACP did an about face on net neutrality, while CenturyLink pivoted to asking the FCC to police interconnection. And, shocking nobody, a FOIA request revealed that yet another core justification for the repeal was bullshit.
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