But Pai has tens of millions of people vehemently opposing him. He is probably recieving jeers and hate mail and rude gestures every time he goes out in public. And people have even started harassing his family - at what point does the money cease to be worth it? Most people would have given up under a hundredth of that backlash.
Pai digs in and fights back against racist death threats? Good for him. Shame on anyone expecting him to back down in the face of that.
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>You can't say "One thing that should remain Sacred is family, wife, and kids"... when there are families who make a living by working online. If this goes through MILLIONS of people will be fucked... I can assure you .. If this falls through, go into witness protection or some shit because you are gonna get killed. Period. 384 upvotes
>This twatwaffle needs to be burned at the stake. 301 upvotes
These are people promoting Net Neutrality. I don't support that. It is disgusting.
strawman: misrepresenting argument to make it easier to attack
ad hominem: attacking your opponent's character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument
appeal to emotion: manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or competing argument
texas sharpshooter: cherry-picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption
But you implied that don't support NN itself, not disgusting comments. So do you support monopolists?
If this guy is going to play dirty then I don't see why others shouldn't fight back.
This was all Ajit's fault, but he's been sacked from public office, rejoice!
Reminds me a story, where there was an official who had an arrangement to receive a payment for every day in prison (if he ever ended up there as a scapegoat for actual criminal overlords, whose crimes he was covering up).
If Verizon is bribing him, they certainly wouldn’t need a former employee to do so. They can just invest in PACs or lobbyists, or even straight up bribe any elected official.
Not necessarily direct employ, but serving their interest. They wouldn't be so stupid as to publicly employ him.
> they certainly wouldn’t need a former employee to do so
It was the path of least resistance for them. He was already in the FCC, and he was always backing the interests of ISP incumbents against the public, if you paid attention.
It actually could be expected. He is not an elected official, so he can easily do the bidding of corporate masters, instead of serving the public, especially if he feels that legislative power is too dysfunctional to do anything about it. It can happen even with elected officials, even more so with appointed ones.