Daily Links: 11/21/17 – The battle for net neutrality begins

• FCC Chairman Ajit Pai formally reveals plans to kill net neutrality. Raise holy hell, people, or the free and open Internet you know is going to disappear.

• Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe abruptly resigns two days after declaring he’d never do so following a military coup.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is very offended by the factual statement that the latest Trump/Republican tax plan would pay for tax cuts for the rich by gouging everyone else.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• I just don’t understand why environmentalists keep protesting oil pipelines.
  (via @BadAstronomer)

• Meanwhile, the Keystone XL pipeline, presumed dead under President Obama, is now going through – just as protests become increasingly criminalized.

• What is it with courts that think they can decide what people in other countries can or cannot say?
  (via @jacobgershman; RT: @Popehat)

• In local news, a Québec judge refuses to dismiss charges against a cop whose reckless speeding caused a crash that killed a five-year-old boy in 2014. This story is the go-to example for everyone around here when they explain why they distrust the police.

• Finally, a Long Island high school teacher gets suspended after bragging on Facebook about flunking students who sat during the Pledge of Allegiance, needs to lose his fucking job immediately.
  (via @GregortheMendel; RT: @Popehat)

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