The Hill has a story today that the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ajit Pai, missed a conference recently because of death threats, seeming made over his policy decision to end net neutrality rules. The Hill said a bomb threat happened during the vote the FCC took to overturn the rules made during the Obama Era.
People in law enforcement or counter terrorism will often have their lives threatened for things they do. They wear masks when they do those kinds of arrests. A friend of mine had his wife and kids threatened and the consequence was a long running divorce and separation, partly for their safety. Russian gangs and Al Qaeda kill people for this kind of thing. But it doesn't happen that often in net neutrality. Really people, what is going on here?
It is one thing to disagree with a policy and say so, but the idea of threatening the life of a family member or principal is unacceptable and out of bounds. Even the people who disagree with the policy decision have to wonder what is going on when a member of their community threatens the life of a government official over it. I didn't see net neutrality as a life threatening issue. This is extreme behavior that cannot be tolerated by civilized people. They usually realize when they have gone too far, and I hope they take actions to stop this kind of behavior. Don't say they can't do that, because we know they can.
Find these people and report them to law enforcement before they actually do what they are saying they will do. I used to think it would not happen just because it was threatened, but then a gunman asked a guy on the street near where I live if those baseball players were Republican or Democrats.
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