Dear Ajit Pai,
You have screwed over the American public. You have screwed over American businesses (with the small exception of Internet providers), and you have screwed over future businesses that have yet to form. You have accomplished all of this with your blind devotion to declassifying Internet providers as no longer a utility.
Just how have you accomplished this Mr. Pai? Let's recap:
For starters, you have lied to and/or misled the American public with your three most often used rhetoric pieces: a) The Internet was just fine before Net Neutrality in 2015, b) the government shouldn't micromanage Internet providers, and c) it keeps Internet providers from building infrastructure.
For starters, you claim that the Internet was just fine for 20 years until the Net Neutrality was put into force by the FCC classifying Internet providers as public utilities in 2015. What you fail to mention is that the reason the FCC elected to classify Internet providers as a utility to enforce Net Neutrality is because prior to that, the FCC was already enforcing Net Neutrality rules on its own and in 2011, Verizon sued the FCC for doing so because it wasn't classified as a utility and thus the FCC had no authority to impose Net Neutrality rules. In 2014, the Federal Courts agreed and subsequently, for a short duration, there was no Net Neutrality. It was after the Federal Court loss that the FCC opted to reclassify Internet providers (within the boundaries of the law mind you) and thus officially be able to enforce Net Neutrality "properly".
And just what did happen *IMMEDIATELY* after the courts ruled in favor of Verizon on the Net Neutrality issues? I personally have read of many instances where several users, primarily Verizon customers, that had their Netflix performance *INSTANTLY* degraded. These performance degradations were then instantly "overcome" when NetFlix opted to pay Verizon more money to "feed the pipeline", or when some users opted to use VPN's.
By the way Mr. Pai, weren't you previously an Associate General Counsel for Verizon? Granted it was years before the lawsuit, but it's very strange how your alignment is so far towards Verizon's side, that you won't listen to general consensus and the masses when it comes to the subject of Net Neutrality. I'm not a comic book junkie, but one of my favorite quotes comes from Batman: "I don't believe in coincidences"
Your misguided notion that Net Neutrality is somehow "micromanaging" the Internet providers. Mr. Pai, I'd like for you to explain to the general public just exactly how telling Internet providers to "keep your hands off traffic" and "you can't discriminate against traffic" is in any way, shape, or form something that can be construed as micromanaging. In fact, it's the exact opposite of micromanaging. In essence, it's saying build it, sell it, and leave it alone. That's as far as opposite to "micromanaging" as you can get.
Lastly, when it comes to your assertion that capital investment has been harmed by Net Neutrality, the research you cite as a backup is in direct contrast to what the ISP's themselves are reporting to their investors. A more complete notion of this can be found here:
https://arstechnica.com/information...-investment-according-to-the-isps-themselves/
It would seem that every one of your notions for getting rid of Net Neutrality is nothing but a lie or at best, a misrepresentation, and for me, questionable motive.
In addition, under all of those years of the Net Neutrality that wasn't, booming Internet companies have come to the forefront of American lore... Amazon, ebay, Netflix, Google, Apple's Itunes and App store, and many more. You are correct in saying that these companies boomed when the FCC had not classified the Internet as a utility until 2015, but they did come about during the time when the FCC was enforcing its own Net Neutrality rules before your former employer sued to end that.
Now what happens? Can Netflix once again pay up more money to not have its speed degraded like before? Yes it can. But you know what that means? It means that customers have to pay more for Netflix to compensate for the increased costs, and/or Netflix has to curtail investment and capital spending.... and that's just one company. Compound that by the many companies that dominate the landscape for users: Walmart, Target, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, ebay, etc... all have increased costs to get their products and services to people and every one of them will have to increase their prices to consumers for literally everything that is consumed via the Internet.
With one fell swoop, you have ravaged the pocketbooks of every consumer in America, many times over.
And what about the next innovative Internet company? Had Net Neutrality rules not been enforced at the time, we would not have Netflix today, or any number of other Internet born companies. So that means the next new Nextflix 2.0, or whoever has the next great idea, will probably not be able to afford to provide it to customers because it doesn't have the resources to "pay up" to Verizon, Comcast, and others.
Mr. Pai, you have done the office of FCC Chairman a disgrace. According to the FCC's website, the FCC is supposed to be "Promoting competition, innovation and investment in broadband services and facilities". What you have accomplished this past week is the complete opposite of that.
Perhaps one day, when you or a family member need something critical, and do not have access to it because of what you've "accomplished" this past week, you will remember what you have done and the longstanding and grandiose effects from doing so. I just hope that when it does, nobody in your family is hurt because of it.
, politics is the problem and they are trying to take your God given rights from us.
Only lies and misinformation just so that ISPs can gain their freedom to make more money on the backs of their subscribers... who can't change ISPs because they have no alternatives. Monopolies FTW!
