FCC won't release emails on Pai's 'Harlem Shake' video

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Source: The Hill

The FCC will not turn over emails related to the filming of a 2017 PSA starring chairman Ajit Pai in support of ending net neutrality rules, according to a statement received by the non-profit that requested the records.

The agency wrote in a statement to Muckrock that emails pertaining to a December PSA meant to hit back at critics of Pai's plan to end Obama-era net neutrality regulations were exempted from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) claims.

The FCC wrote that releasing two pages of internal emails about the video "would foreseeably harm the staff's ability to execute its functions by freely discussing relevant matters."

Pai was the subject of controversy over the video, which was produced by the right-wing news site The Daily Caller, after it was revealed that one of the actors dancing to the "Harlem Shake" in the video was actually a well-known conspiracy theorist who promoted "Pizzagate."

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/382081-fcc-wont-release-emails-on-pais-harlem-shake-video

[Mc Mike]

1. Naturally, a Dee Rump admin agency would have it's abilities to execute functions impacted,

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negatively, if the American Public who pays them gets to see how they decided what to say and do to us.

But do some quick doublethinking when Shitler and his repug allies start talking about subpoenas against FBI, Justice, and Intel agencies for top secret info on how and why they're investigating Prez shithole and his crooked mobbed up nazi betray the US to Putin associates.

E-mails from the Communications Commission? Those are sacred secrets.

Actually classified intel deliberations and methods? Those are things that the world has a right to know.

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2. nothing is sacred anymore, expect for the trump family.