It never had a chance of succeeding in the first place. This dumb fucking cunt thinks he's some hero when he is just the biggest, most obvious, corporate cocksucker that everyone from Republicans to Democrats can see how large his asshole has been stretched out in the first place by Verizon fucking their little butt boy. He had no intention of listening to the debate, which is why people started calling their reps instead of even trying the FCC.
I mean, nobody is going to take it lying down. Too many people make their living on it. Imagine if you are Amazon and you work from home, like they have programs doing. Suddenly, Amazon needs to pay more because 'employees' are using too much bandwidth. This is really obviously a ploy for dying companies (Cable) and Monopolies (ISPs), to secure their waning power. It is nothing but a naked power grab and there is no good argument against it.
Even if this goes through, people are already gearing up to fight it. This isn't simply going to go away. You've got the industry group for Apple, Google and Amazon 'exploring their legal options'. Pai doesn't have enough lawyers and money to fight this well. He's going to get fucked up the ass ten ways from Sunday. When someone over-reaches like this, basically aligning the entire internet and every corporation on it, you're looking at hell on levels not seen before. Not to mention three more activist groups are planning lawsuits as well. One way to stop this is tie it up in court for so long, it never gets resolved and a new FCC chair replaces Pai and just goes back to previous rules. Even if it does get passed, it will result in an unimaginable shitshow of people rebelling against their ISPs, looking for ways around it, or speeding up of tech to make it obsolete. You might even see industry groups beginning to sue ISPs to break up their monopolies and little fiefdoms just as a spitefuck, to force their way in. Or support lawsuits saying the ISPs haven't lived up to their obligations of infrastructure and their privelages should be revoked. Pai is the living embodiment of a fucking shill exceptional individual who better pray verizon hires him back after the absolute Pandora's box he opened.
Even without lawsuits, trolls are gearing up to make his life a fucking living hell. And I wouldn't be surprised if we see a few bricks through the stores of verizon's windows.
