{"id":9722,"date":"2018-09-23T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2018-09-23T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:07:48","slug":"ajit-pai-seems-really-upset-about-the-california-net-neutrality-bill-that-passed-with-bipartisan-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/23\/ajit-pai-seems-really-upset-about-the-california-net-neutrality-bill-that-passed-with-bipartisan-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajit Pai seems really upset about the California net neutrality bill that passed with bipartisan support"},"content":{"rendered":"
Posted 13:57 EDT on September 15, 2018 (fightforthefuture.org)<\/span><\/p>\n
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2018
\nContact: Evan Greer, 978-852-6457,\u00a0press@fightforthefuture.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday, FCC chairman Ajit Pai spoke at an event where he\u00a0ranted<\/a>\u00a0about SB 822, the California bill that rebukes his repeal of net neutrality, which passed the state legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more than a bit ironic that Pai chose Maine to make his remarks as both its Senators, a Republican and an Independent, voted in May to overturn his resoundingly unpopular repeal of the FCC\u2019s open Internet protections.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter how hard he tries, Ajit Pai is just never going to convince a meaningful number of Internet users that letting Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T to censor the web and charge new fees is a good idea,\u201d\u00a0said Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future,\u00a0<\/b>\u201cWhen Pai calls the California net neutrality bill the \u201cmost egregious\u201d response to his repeal of net neutrality, the public knows to interpret that as \u201cmost badass.\u201d Governor Jerry Brown shouldn\u2019t let big telecoms or con artist bureaucrats like Ajit Pai push him around. He needs to sign SB 822 and set an example for the rest of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fight over SB 822 has\u00a0implications<\/a>\u00a0for the entire nation. Giant Internet service providers like AT&T and Comcast poured enormous amounts of money into lobbying efforts to stop the legislation. They\u2019ve even been caught\u00a0funding astroturf<\/a>front groups, who \u00a0targeted<\/a>\u00a0seniors with misleading robocalls, and ran outrageous Twitter ads generating tweets targeting California assembly members that look like they\u2019re from real constituents. One of these groups, CALinnovates, even lies about its membership,\u00a0claiming<\/a>\u00a0Uber is a partner when the company denies it. On Thursday, an investigative report\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that AT&T\u2019s top lobbyist in Sacramento is not properly registered as a lobbyist, raising ethics questions.<\/p>\n

ISP lobbyists managed to gut SB 822 once in committee. But the bill was restored and eventually passed after massive\u00a0public outcry<\/a>\u00a0and the threat of crowdfunded\u00a0billboards<\/a>\u00a0targeting legislators that tried to water it down.<\/p>\n

Fight for the Future is a maintaining a click-to-call tool and public scoreboard of how California legislators voted at\u00a0battleforthenet.com\/california<\/a>, and will continue advocacy to ensure that Governor Jerry Brown signs SB 822 into law.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted 13:57 EDT on September 15, 2018 (fightforthefuture.org) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2018 Contact: Evan Greer, 978-852-6457,\u00a0press@fightforthefuture.org Yesterday, FCC chairman Ajit Pai spoke at an event where he\u00a0ranted\u00a0about SB 822, the California bill that rebukes his repeal of net neutrality, which passed the state legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support…. Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9723,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions\/9723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}