Recently, a 33-year-old citizen of Norwalk, California has been jailed for a severe crime. He was held for sending menacing emails to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman, Ajit Pai. This action was reported earlier in 2017, and the culprit has finally been punished by the US Department of Justice. As per the recent reports, the threatening messages were sent by a person, Makara Man was produced fundamentally in the second of three messages conveyed to Pai’s official FCC email accounts in December 2017, soon after the FCC proposed to abolish net neutrality protections.
Justice Department commented regarding the incident in a report saying that in the first message, the culprit contacted Pai that he was accountable for the suicide of a teenage which happened because of the decline of net neutrality. After that, he transferred a record of spots in Arlington, the hometown of the Pai, which consisted of a life warning to kill his children and family members. In the third and last message, he sent only a picture of Pai and besides there Pai’s family picture.
The message reads “I will find your children and I will kill them,” along with a caption “Cheers”. Gadgetsay reporter found Justice Department report which states that the FBI investigated the case and detected the emails to culprits address, from the place where he admitted sending the threatening messages. He further said that he used an email alias, “[email protected],” professedly as the alias can turn him appear stronger, as recorded in the affidavit. The affidavit also read that aim of the culprit was to frighten Pai as he was said to be outraged on the overrule of net neutrality protections.
The culprit has been accused of life-threatening a family of a US official member along with the intention of obstructing the member’s position administration and services or frightening to take revenge with a US official for their formal job tasks. He will be sentenced to imprisonment for over 10 years. Pai’s vote was indeed a provocative stand on net neutrality which appeared as a strong choice to eliminate the Title II classification for internet service providers in December 2017.
Pai has been dominated by a large number of impassioned objection online as well as in the real environment. Pai was programmed to attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at the beginning of January, after the vote held at the end of 2017, but he couldn’t join because of the death threats received. Net neutrality is a worrying matter and the present administration’s rejection of the 2015 dictates is an absolutely valid inference to oppose and, admittedly, get Pai subjectively to the duty, as he is the chief planner of the immediate position. However, the protest should be in cordial and kind manner.
Terry Ts 
Rudhra Nandu