{"id":178669,"date":"2018-09-25T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/25\/want-some-cheese-with-that-whine-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-25T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T01:39:00","slug":"want-some-cheese-with-that-whine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/25\/want-some-cheese-with-that-whine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Want Some Cheese with that Whine?"},"content":{"rendered":"
FCC Chairman, and spokes model for corruption, Ajit Pai is very upset at California’s new (pretty weak tea) net neutrality rules<\/a>:<\/div>\n

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California’s attempt to enforce net neutrality rules is “illegal” and “poses a risk to the rest of the country,” Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said in a speech on Friday. <\/p>\n

Pai’s remarks drew an immediate rebuke from California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who authored the net neutrality bill that passed California’s legislature<\/a> and now awaits the signature of Governor Jerry Brown. <\/p>\n

California’s net neutrality rules<\/a> are “necessary and legal because Chairman Pai abdicated his responsibility to ensure an open Internet,” Wiener said in a press release. <\/p>\n

“Unlike Pai’s FCC, California isn’t run by the big telecom and cable companies,” Wiener also said. “Pai can take whatever potshots at California he wants. The reality is that California is the world’s innovation capital, and unlike the crony capitalism promoted by the Trump administration, California understands exactly what it takes to foster an open innovation economy with a level playing field.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would someone please take that big coffee mug and shove it up his ass?<\/p>\n

Without lube preferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FCC Chairman, and spokes model for corruption, Ajit Pai is very upset at California’s new (pretty weak tea) net neutrality rules: California’s attempt to enforce net neutrality rules is “illegal” and “poses a risk to the rest of the country,” Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said in a speech on Friday. Pai’s remarks drew …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,368,367,449,437],"class_list":["post-178669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-communications","tag-corruption","tag-internet","tag-legislation","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}