The Daily Populous

Monday May 8th, 2017 night edition

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However, according to Oliver, that is threatened by the Trump administration’s decision to roll back protections for net neutrality.

For instance, Ancestry.com and Oliver’s new website, JustTellMeIfImRelatedToANazi.com (which, by the way, directs to the Federal Communications Commission's site).

The person leading the charge to roll back net neutrality is President Trump’s new FCC Chair, Ajit Pai, a former lawyer for Verizon .

Instead, Oliver believes that anyone who loves the Internet needs to speak up and make sure the FCC knows that net neutrality is important.

Internet commenters: Visit https://t.co/7BXwaar6k3 and urge the FCC to keep strong net neutrality rules backed by Title II.

Oliver wants them to all come together, get involved, and save net neutrality .

In 2014, the FCC's website crashed due to a huge amount of traffic following Oliver's first program on net neutrality. »

Republicans ponder possible defeat in red Georgia

Authored by mcclatchydc.com
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1:25 Can Trump solve a big Democratic problem?.

1:41 Yates on Flynn: ‘The National Security Adviser, essentially, could be blackmailed by the Russians’.

4:21 Comey confirms FBI investigating Russia interference in 2016 U.S. presidential Election. »

E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board

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The scientists dismissed from the 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors received emails from an agency official informing them that their three-year terms had expired and would not be renewed.

That was contrary, the scientists said, to what they had been told by officials at the agency in January, just before Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

Both boards, which until now have been composed almost entirely of academic research scientists, have long been targets of political attacks. »