Ajit Pai killed net neutrality but still wants you to love the FCC

The Federal Communications Commission launched a podcast yesterday, playfully named after George Carlin’s famously explicit standup routine. The show, More Than Seven Dirty Words, will interview people inside and outside the FCC about what the commission does and how it impacts the real world.

But the podcast’s introduction — and the FCC’s announcement about it — reveals something odd and frustrating that speaks to the current state of the commission: the FCC thinks no one cares about what it does. The podcast’s host, Evan Swarztrauber, previously of the libertarian think tank TechFreedom, opens with an explanation for people who “haven’t had the pleasure of taking a telecom law class” and closes with the tongue-in-cheek promise of...

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