FCC accidentally leaks internal “joke” memo about Chairman Pai [pdf]

[+] dsr_|8 years ago|reply

This is from the electronic comment filing system, where anyone can upload a PDF.

[+] shlomok|8 years ago|reply

In that case it should be fairly easy to find the comment it's associated with.

I originally had the same thought but couldn't find it after a fairly thorough search.

[+] tj-teej|8 years ago|reply

I don't know what's worse, what the FCC is doing to destroy Net Neutrality or the fact that the word "cuck" has gone mainstream...

[+] doctorshady|8 years ago|reply

It's not just net neutrality - it's pretty much all sound policy governing telecommunications: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/one-b...

(Despite the broadband headline, this is regarding wholesale traffic on non-packetized networks. For convenience reasons, they do however occasionally do last mile internet delivery)

[+] OtterCoder|8 years ago|reply

"accidentally" This has to have been purposeful, or forged. Either way, can't argue with it.

[+] mykeliu|8 years ago|reply

Is there a source for this? It looks like the document is hosted via the FCC's electronic comment filing system API, but I can't find a news source for this at all.

[+] doctorshady|8 years ago|reply

This was the Reddit source I found it from: https://www.reddit.com/r/netneutrality/duplicates/6x368k/fcc...

For whatever it's worth, I think comments hosted on that server have a different naming convention; usually it's /file/<comment id>/<original submitted file name>.extension

EDIT: Case and point, look at the format for comments in this proceeding: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-...

[+] shlomok|8 years ago|reply

There are about 10 articles about it now, look again

[+] CamperBob2|8 years ago|reply

Can someone with some business savvy explain how the financial markets are OK with what's happening in DC these days?

Loose cannons and misguided missiles are not your friends. Ever. It doesn't matter what side you're on.

[+] CodeSalad|8 years ago|reply

I don't claim to be especially "savvy"-- but with more than a third of the market value held "passively" (meaning investors in indexed funds), a lot of people have traded voting with their feet for a sense of security. Thus, there isn't actually a lot of pressure in the stock market reservoir to bubble back up to the Beltway. After reading yesterday's HN topic: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-valuations-havent-... and the accompanying paper from Grantham, Mayo & van Oterloo: https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-comment...

...my pithy summary would be "Winter is coming."

[+] aaronbrethorst|8 years ago|reply

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/12/trump-tax-h...

[+] trapperkeeper74|8 years ago|reply

A libertarian economist would say:

"Externalities are only bad when the island runs out of trees to chop down, canneries runs out of sardines to can and planet runs out of fossil fuels dig up."

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