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A California man was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Friday after pleading guilty for threatening to kill the family of U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai over the regulator’s successful effort to repeal net neutrality rules. The Justice Department said Markara Man, 33, of Norwalk, California, sent the email threats “in hopes it would cause (Pai) to reverse his position on net neutrality.” The FCC did not immediately comment after the sentencing by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. […] In November 2018, Tyler Barriss pleaded guilty for calling in a bomb threat...

A California man was arrested Friday by FBI agents on charges of threatening to kill Federal Communications Commission chairmanr Ajit Pai over Pai's role in the Trump administration's repeal of net neutrality protections. The Justice Department said in a press release that Markara Man, 33, of Norwalk, California made three threatening emails to accounts operated by Pai last December around the time the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality rules passed during the Obama administration. The first email blamed Pai for the suicide of a child Man apparently linked to the repeal of net neutrality, while the subsequent emails contained...

A man was arrested in Los Angeles on Friday on charges of threatening to murder the family of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, according to the Justice Department. The department alleged in a news release that 33-year-old Markara Man threatened the FCC chairman's family because he was "angry" about the repeal of net neutrality regulations and hoped to "scare" the chairman. In court documents filed with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a police officer with the Arlington County Police Department said there is probable cause to believe that Man sent a series of emails...