Ajit Pai Wants the Internet to Know You Can Still Harlem Shake After Net Neutrality
FCC withholds Ajit Pai's emails regarding the infamous "Harlem Milk shake" video
Bureau cites deliberative privilege to deny access to records regarding yet another embarrassing video starring Pai
Concluding December, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai starred in a "PSA" produced by The Daily Caller. In the video, Pai addressed all the "trolls" in the net neutrality debate, reassuring the public that they will still exist able to savor things on the net after its repeal. To illustrate this, Pai does the absolute polar opposite of an enjoyable affair on the internet: the Harlem Shake.
That segment actually led to the video being temporarily removed from YouTube after a copyright complaint from the record label Mad Decent.
Curious as to whose idea this was, I filed a FOIA for emails betwixt The Daily Caller and the FCC, besides equally any talking points regarding this huge PR coup. Four months later, the FCC responded. The agency found two pages of emails simply would exist withholding them in their entirety under FOIA's infamous b(5) exemption regarding deliberative procedure.
This isn't even the first fourth dimension the FCC has used b(v) to deny admission to records regarding Pai starring in an embarrassing video - the bureau rejected Gizmodo'southward request for records relating to a one-act skit in which Pai joked nearly being a "Verizon puppet," similarly nether b(v).
Read the rejection letter is embedded below or on the request page. If yous're interested in Pai and the fight for net neutrality, you can check out his calendar here.
Image by Cuff Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons and is licensed under CC-BY 2.0
Source: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/apr/05/fcc-harlem-shake/
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