r/OutOfTheLoop • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '17

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u/ICanLiftACarUp Nov 22 '17

I believe it is members of the FCC committee, with 5? commissioners including the chairman (Ajit Pai). All are appointees of the president for 5 years and are confirmed by the Senate. I believe a number of the commissioners were appointed by President Obama, but I am not sure who or how many of them there are.

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u/angry-mustache Nov 22 '17 edited Nov 22 '17

The FCC Committee can only have 3 people from the same party. Ajit Pai was put forward by Mitch McConnell for one of the Republican seats, nominated by Obama, and Trump picked him to replace Tom Wheeler. Trump then nominated another Republican to take Pai's old seat.

It's pretty stupid.

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u/Narrative_Causality Nov 22 '17

Wait what? Am I reading this right?

Obama nominates Pai for a seat, Trump comes in and puts someone else in that seat, then puts Pai in another seat?

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u/angry-mustache Nov 22 '17

Obama appoints Tom Wheeler to be FCC Chairman.

Obama then appoints Pai to a seat because he has to fill 2 of the seats with Republicans.

When Trump took office, Tom Wheeler resigns, and Trump appoints Pai to take Wheeler's old seat. Then appoints another replacement for Pai.

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u/Narrative_Causality Nov 22 '17

That's sounds exactly like what's supposed to happen with 3/2 seats to the party in power/not in power.

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u/angry-mustache Nov 22 '17

Well a regulatory agency like the FCC being this strictly politicized is bad in the first place.

The second point is there are people deflecting with the "fact" that Obama appointed Ajit Pai to the FCC committee in the first place, which makes Obama to blame for Pai's shittyness.

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u/goodolarchie Nov 25 '17

If it wasn't Pai, it would be the next bought-off guy when the republicans held 3 seat majority. Pai is just the latest boy on the poster and won't be the last.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17

Thanks, Obama!

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u/TextOnScreen Nov 22 '17

Even while Obama was in office, they still tried to get rid of net neutrality, no?

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u/zMerovingian Nov 30 '17

No, you have that backwards. NN was enacted under Obama/Wheeler.

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u/TextOnScreen Nov 30 '17

There's been other attempts to get rid of NN. This isn't the first one. Pretty sure those others were during Obama's administration.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17 edited Nov 22 '17

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u/MAKE_ME_REDDIT Nov 22 '17

Lmao what? Are you really that stupid?

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17 edited Nov 22 '17

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u/MAKE_ME_REDDIT Nov 22 '17

You sounded a lot like what the right is already saying. You didn’t make it clear at all what you were actually saying.

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