Ajit Pai is a member of the Ayn Rand/James Buchanan cult that says that any government regulation is an unfair attack on the "freedom" of business, which is why his ascendancy to the Chairmanship of the FCC under Donald Trump was attended by an orgy of deregulation -- most of us know about his senseless slaughter of Net Neutrality, but that was just for starters. Among the rules Ajit Pai killed was one that required telcos rebuilding after natural disasters to quickly replace ruined telcoms infrastructure with equivalent systems.
After Killing Disaster-recovery Rules, Ajit Pai Can't Understand Why Carriers Aren't Helping Hurricane-hit Florida
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Sat, 10/20/2018 - 4:50am
Topics: regulatory reform act of 2011 ayn rand/james buchanan chairmanship donald trump net neutrality fire island the regulatory reform act gov scott verizon—and floridians an fcc public knowledge politico hurricane michael a wake up call on why total dereg telecom a very bad idea harold feld/wetmachine jon brodkin/ars technica ajit pai fcc pai hurricane sandy verizon florida similarly rick scott governor rick scott the hurricane michael scott feld carriers deregulation killed work service fiber phone panhandle rebuilding pressure publicly networks costs complaints data consumer wrote people residential infrastructure natural state telcoms disasters replace
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