It is exceptionally rare to have the Department of Justice refuse to sign onto an FCC brief, but this says that the DOJ doesn’t trust that this is legal, president Obama’s own Department of Justice implicitly is questioning whether or not this is government overreach.

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That's just, like, your opinion, man. by Ajit Pai

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

Allowing call blocking by default could be a big benefit for consumers who are sick and tired of robocalls, by making it clear that such call blocking is allowed, the FCC will give voice service providers the legal certainty they need to block unwanted calls from the outset so that consumers never have to get them.

This legislation is a big-government solution in search of a problem, the Internet is free and open, while faster broadband is being deployed across America. This bill should not and will not become law.

The California law prohibits many free-data plans, which allow consumers to stream video, music, and the like exempt from any data limits. They have proven enormously popular in the marketplace, especially among lower-income Americans. But notwithstanding the consumer benefits, this state law bans them.

The effect of this will be better, faster, cheaper internet access and the free and open internet that we have had for many, many years.

The state of Hawaii did not have safeguards in place to prevent that human error from causing a false alert to go out, the last thing we want is for elected officials, citizens, everybody to be scrambling, thinking ‘ there really is a missile coming to Hawaii ’ or any other kind of emergency. He added :.

The worst thing, going forward, would be for these false alerts to undermine public confidence in the wireless emergency alerting system because, when a real emergency hits, you want people to take that information seriously.

The FCC is time for the Internet, once again, to be driven by engineers and entrepreneurs and consumers rather than lawyers, accountants and bureaucrats.

On advice of security, we need to take a brief recess. by Ajit Pai

On advice of security, we need to take a brief recess.

The solution is not more regulations, the problem was this was sl... by Ajit Pai

The solution is not more regulations, the problem was this was slapping on more regulations.

It certainly crosses a line with me. by Ajit Pai

It certainly crosses a line with me.

Proposals from Republican commissioners have been roundly rejected as crossing a' red line,' even when an identical proposal from a Democratic commissioner is accepted later on.

From a federal level it is interesting, because we have a disagreement over whether or not the federal government can do anything one way or another.

Municipal broadband networks have a track record of overpromising and under-delivering, wasting taxpayer money while also harming any current or potential private competitors.

The order explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes, read my lips: More new taxes are coming. It's just a matter of when.

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The Internet is not broken. There is no problem for the governmen... by Ajit Pai

The Internet is not broken. There is no problem for the government to solve.

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Last week's carefully managed rollout was designed to downplay the plans of a massive intrusion in the Internet economy ... . I have now read the 332-page plan. It is worse than I had imagined.

Whether it's police officers, firefighters, first responders, or 911 dispatchers, many dedicated Americans work long hours, and often in difficult conditions, to make sure that when someone's in need, they can help.

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Imagine a world where everything that can be connected will be connected - where driverless cars talk to smart transportation networks and where wireless sensors can monitor your health and transmit data to your doctor. That's a snapshot of what the 5G world will look like.

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In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.

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