Now the FCC...What branch of this admin isn't weaponized??? FJB!!!!

[poopooforme]

A two Democrat/two Republican deadlock in FCC commissioners was broken in September with the confirmation of a Biden candidate for the empty fifth seat.  Two months later the Democrats targeted Elon Musk by revoking major Federal rural internet funding to Starlink years before they have to begin demonstrating performance benchmarks

Ms. Gomez, an immigrant born in Bogota, Colombia, is a former VP at Sprint and spent the last decade as a partner at Washington DC mega lobbying firm Wiley Rein, employer of numerous former, and future, government officials.

WSJ on MSN, non-paywalled  https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-fcc-ambushes-musk-s-starlink/ar-AA1lwlbx?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=f00be78b54264e8ff06bb703f925fa6d&ei=22

 

 

 

Three years ago the FCC awarded Starlink $885 million to provide high speed internet service to some 640,000 rural homes and businesses in 35 states. Several traditional broadband providers also won awards. But Starlink has the potential to cover remote regions at lower cost because it doesn't require building out hundreds of miles of fiber...

The FCC's new 3 to 2 Democratic majority on Tuesday nonetheless revoked Starlink's funding because it hasn't met its commitment to connect 640,000 rural Americans two years ahead of schedule. Yet the law merely requires Starlink to show it is "reasonably capable" of providing high speed internet to at least 40% of the roughly 640,000 rural premises by the end of 2025. Starlink filed voluminous documents with the agency in 2021 and 2022 demonstrating it could reach this benchmark. The FCC has never before required that a funding recipient meet its obligations years early....

GOP commissioner Brendan Carr notes in a dissent.... the FCC's decision "cannot be explained by any objective application of law, facts, or policy," he writes, adding that it follows a disturbing pattern of Biden regulators targeting Mr. Musk's businesses.

The Democrats may also be doing the bidding of the Communications Workers of America, which represents workers at traditional broadband providers. Starlink wouldn't require large numbers of unionized workers to blanket rural areas with high-speed internet and could do so faster than traditional carriers.

It would be better policy if the government left the financing of broadband expansion to private companies. But if it's going to pick winners and losers, it ought to do so based on objective criteria rather than political bias. The FCC's arbitrary revocation of Starlink's funding underscores that it is far from an "independent" agency, as Republican commissioner Nathan Simington writes in dissent.

"If this is what passes for due process and the rule of law at the FCC, then this agency ought not to be trusted with the adjudicatory powers Congress has granted it and the deference that the courts have given it," he writes....

[f7ben]

Take a look at Bill Barr’s background in telecom and government spying. 
 

This has nothing to do with D and R. This is us vs them and they are all the fucking same including Trump

[racer254]

In order for democrats to get their policies past,  they do things like this.  In Chicago, they want to stop all advanced placement schools because there are not enough minority qualifying for them. 

[Mainecat]

sounds like the Supreme Court.

[poopooforme]

13 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

sounds like the Supreme Court.

How and da fuck do you draw a parallel between what I posted and the supreme court????

[Mainecat]

8 minutes ago, poopooforme said:

How and da fuck do you draw a parallel between what I posted and the supreme court????

Holy fuck if you have to ask….

[poopooforme]

Just now, Mainecat said:

Holy fuck if you have to ask….

I know what you are insinuating.  Just want to see you write it.  Getting jurors appointed to the supreme court takes the Senate's confirmation.  Your girl lost so your guy lost.  How is that the same as the FCC using politics to go after Musk??  To injure all those rural Americans that were in line to get high speed internet because they don't like his politics?  How is that the same???????  

[Mainecat]

1 hour ago, poopooforme said:

I know what you are insinuating.  Just want to see you write it.  Getting jurors appointed to the supreme court takes the Senate's confirmation.  Your girl lost so your guy lost.  How is that the same as the FCC using politics to go after Musk??  To injure all those rural Americans that were in line to get high speed internet because they don't like his politics?  How is that the same???????  

Look up what a party majority is junior

[poopooforme]

22 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Look up what a party majority is junior

So you are good with politicizing three letter agency's of the .govt?  Picking winners and losers by political affiliation?  I mean that's whats going on here and has been for quite awhile.  Shame to see what this country has become...  

[EvilBird]

2 hours ago, poopooforme said:

So you are good with politicizing three letter agency's of the .govt?  Picking winners and losers by political affiliation?  I mean that's whats going on here and has been for quite awhile.  Shame to see what this country has become...  

Yea he is.

He is a old retarded bootlicker that loves Big Government. 

Worst of the worst. 

[DriftBusta]

14 hours ago, poopooforme said:

So you are good with politicizing three letter agency's of the .govt?  Picking winners and losers by political affiliation?  I mean that's whats going on here and has been for quite awhile.  Shame to see what this country has become...  

He flunked civics class obviously.  This started with Obama.  It won't last.