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Pai, who chaired the FCC from 2017 to 2021, during the Donald Trump administration and was often derided online mostly for undoing the net neutrality rules, is now a partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, a global investment firm.
”America’s Public Television Stations are honored and delighted to welcome Ajit Pai to the APTS board,” said APTS president and CEO Patrick Butler.
Fox in the henhouse, again.
Fuck Ajit Pai
Fuck Ajit Pai and the ridiculously oversized Reese’s mug he rode in on.
Fuck shit pie
Fuck Ajit Pai.
Just when I thought this dipshit was out of my life for good.
He looks like he shits his pants on purpose.
He looks like Ted Nugent?
Ted Nugent is a shitheel but is still 5% more respectable than Ajit Pai. Atleast Nugent shit his pants to get out of being drafted, which I 100% get.
A have to take Ajit.
I can’t actually figure out what APTS does. I think it’s only a lobbying nonprofit. It’s not mentioned on the public television Wikipedia article and I’m struggling to find a good Google query that turns up something it’s done. Putting all of that together, it’s just a continuation of his regulatory capture.
Edit: I should have looked at the 501©3 stuff first. This org collects money from public stations and spends it on its staff. It lobbies but doesn’t present much in the way of returns.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521170071/202223429349300807/full
They help fund some public stations around the country, and lobby to support them, allegedly.
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) is a nonprofit membership organization ensuring a strong and financially sound public television system and helping member stations provide essential public services in education, public safety and civic leadership to the American people.
Its affiliate APTS Action, Inc. promotes the legislative and regulatory interests of noncommercial television stations at the national level through direct advocacy and through grasstops and grassroots campaigns designed to garner bipartisan political support. The public television system is comprised of 158 licensees operating 356 public television stations across America and serving more than 97 percent of the American people. About half of these licensees are nonprofit community foundations. The rest are State, university and local school district licensees. All are locally owned, locally operated and locally oriented in their programming and community services, and all share a mission of serving everyone, everywhere, every day for free – including in places where no model for commercial success exists.
APTS is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all forms to reflect the society that public television serves.
Additionally, APTS is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually working to improve the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.
I don’t trust their website given Pai’s involvement. Did you find an external source that talked about their funding of stations? The about you quoted (that I read several times to try to parse) really just highlights they funnel money to lobbyists.
You can use this portal to find the public access stations they support.
Ok, now I’m actually convinced that this is good, because it means this power hungry shitstain isn’t able to curate any real influence beyond a token lobbying job at a second rate firm.
 This country has always had the best politicians money can buy.
What is Patrick Butler’s deal? Because no one is honored and delighted to welcome this douche nozzle into any organization with a shred of integrity.
There’s no shirt for your face
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Ew. Just ew.
Ugggh, I thought I was done hearing about Shit Pie.
Wait so he’s not burning in hell with Epstein, Hitler, and Kissinger?
Dude has the stereotypical face of corruption