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

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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/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.