Thursday the FCC stopped accepting comments as part of long-standing rules "to provide FCC decision-makers with a period of repose during which they can reflect on the upcoming items" before their May 18th meeting. Techdirt wondered if this time to reflect would mean less lobbying from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, but on Friday Pai recorded a Jimmy Kimmel-style video mocking mean tweets, with responses Gizmodo called "appalling" and implying "that anyone who opposes his cash grab for corporations is a moron."
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/05/14/236204/fcc-suspends-net-neutrality-comments-as-chairman-pai-mocks-mean-tweets
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170512/12095837350/fcc-temporarily-stops-taking-net-neutrality-comments-so-fcc-can-reflect.shtml
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/05/14/236204/fcc-suspends-net-neutrality-comments-as-chairman-pai-mocks-mean-tweets
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170512/12095837350/fcc-temporarily-stops-taking-net-neutrality-comments-so-fcc-can-reflect.shtml
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