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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAjit Pais Harlem Shake video preparations must remain secret, FCC says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/fcc-wont-reveal-the-secrets-behind-ajit-pais-anti-net-neutrality-dance-video/The Federal Communications Commission has denied a public records request that sought emails regarding Chairman Ajit Pai's "Harlem Shake" video.
Pai shot the video with the Daily Caller, a conservative news site, just before the December 2017 FCC vote to repeal net neutrality rules. Pai performed the Harlem Shake dance and other hijinks in order to demonstrate that his repeal of net neutrality rules wouldn't prevent Internet users from doing silly things on the Internet. One of Pai's dancing partners was reportedly a proponent of the debunked "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory.
When asked for communications about the video by MuckRock, a public records-focused news site, the FCC refused to make them public.
"Curious as to whose idea this was, I filed a FOIA for emails between The Daily Caller and the FCC, as well as any talking points regarding this huge PR coup," MuckRock Executive Editor JPat Brown wrote yesterday. "Four months later, the FCC responded. The agency found two pages of emails but would be withholding them in their entirety under FOIA's infamous b(5) exemption regarding deliberative process."
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Ajit Pais Harlem Shake video preparations must remain secret, FCC says (Original Post)
jpak
Apr 2018
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Docreed2003
(16,889 posts)1. These bastards think this is just one hilarious joke
Initech
(100,117 posts)2. Could these assholes be any more horrible?
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)3. I think we all know
the answer to that.
LiberalArkie
(15,731 posts)4. This one?