FCC: We could tell you our cybersecurity plan… but we'd have to kill you America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, has continued digging an ever-deeper hole over its claims it was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack. The latest shovel of BS came in a letter [PDF] to US Congress in which the FCC's chief information officer David Bray said he could not tell Congressmen what the "additional …
.... misleading US citizens and Congress in order to try to undermine critics of its actions, it comes in the fact that the FCC website fell over a second time the next night after the original failure.
It just so happened that John Oliver's segment was re-airing at the same time
That kind of says it all, doesn't it? Now to wait for the screams of "Fake News" from certain officials.....
If they admit it wasn't a DoS but was just their system collapsing under the volume of comments telling them not to do what Pai had already decided he was going to do, they'd have to admit net neutrality is very unpopular and deserves further study before dumping it.
While I have no problem with getting rid of the Title II business that was used to shoehorn it in, we have to find some way to insure net neutrality is the norm, and not just "trust us" commitments from big ISPs. We know what those are worth.
The most hypocritical thing about it is that republicans kept claiming (quite correctly!) that Wheeler would decide something, and then the public comment period was a formality that was ignored. Now Pai is doing the same thing, but somehow they aren't objecting - and somehow the democrats who ignored those republican complaints are aghast that their complaints are being ignored. It is too bad partisan politics have infiltrated the FCC...
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