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Audio description on hold; FCC caves to republican pressure to stop all progressive projects (motherboard.vice.com)
submitted by Marconius
fastfinge 6 points 6y ago
Can't say I'm surprised. This is the absolute least of what blind folks can expect in Trump's United States of Hate.
rkingett 5 points 6y ago
I am not shocked at all. This is only the start of demolishing disability progress. It will get worse.
-shacklebolt- 4 points 6y ago
Not surprising, but very disappointing.
autotldr 2 points 6y ago
This is the best tl;dr I could make, $1 reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)
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> Over the last 24 hours, influential Republicans in both the Senate and the House sent letters to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler essentially telling him to cease work on the remaining big-ticket items on his agenda.

> Tech policy experts expect Trump's FCC to be much more sympathetic to the views and wishes of cable and phone giants like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T. Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, whose name has been circulated among tech policy insiders as a potential candidate for the top job, has been an outspoken critic of the agency's proposed set-top box reform.

> Trump, who has lashed out on Twitter against net neutrality, the principle that all internet content should be equally accessible to consumers, is expected to work with the Republican-controlled Congress to install FCC officials who will seek to dismantle current US rules safeguarding net neutrality.


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