The FCC’s meeting on Net Neutrality was abruptly evacuated Thursday amid an unidentified security incident. The meeting is back on after police officers swept the room with bomb-sniffing dogs.
“Whoa. “On advice of security, we need to take a brief recess,” says @AjitPaiFCC, who just stopped the @FCC open meeting prior to him taking the deciding vote on repealing #netneutrality rules.@CSPAN switched feed. FCC live offline. Reporters told to leave laptops. Way abnormal,” reporter Alex Howard
Whoa. "On advice of security, we need to take a brief recess," says @AjitPaiFCC, who just stopped the @FCC open meeting prior to him taking the deciding vote on repealing #netneutrality rules. @CSPAN switched feed. FCC live offline. Reporters told to leave laptops. Way abnormal.
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) December 14, 2017
WATCH: FCC takes abrupt recess during #NetNeutrality debate "on advice of security" http://pic.twitter.com/cZUWBeet3K
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 14, 2017
WATCH: Security officers and dogs search room where FCC meeting on net neutrality was taking place https://t.co/5setUrEYRR http://pic.twitter.com/RP1ln0ZLAk
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 14, 2017
ABC News reports:
Demonstrators gathered outside the FCC building on Thursday and piled flowers on the ground in an apparent memorial for the internet as we know it.
The FCC’s leadership will vote Thursday on Ajit Pai’s proposal to rescind the Obama-era classification of broadband firms as “common carriers” with neutrality obligations.
Liberals want the government to keep this Obama regulation.
Ajit Pai told the Daily Caller “The Internet shouldn’t be governed like a water company, or an electric company, or a slow-moving subway system. It should be free to innovate. And that’s what we are going to do moving forward.”
UPDATE: FCC debate on #NetNeutrality resumes.
"Sorry for the interruption. We were acting on the recommendation of the Federal Protective Service. But we can now reconvene," FCC Chairman Pai says http://pic.twitter.com/AphsfabTyW
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 14, 2017
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