That sounds bad, but only until you learn that it is standard practice. In the Bush-->Obama transition a very similar letter was sent to the FCC.

It's basically "don't do non-urgent stuff that we'd probably revoke anyway, those two months aren't worth the hassle".

This is the kind of thing that Democrats should have been talking about during the election. Republicans are for the most part anti-consumer but they do a good job of framing it as good for business. But everyone has a story of Comcast ripping them off, Democrats should talk more about how good for business really means bad for you.

This headline is terrible. It's phrasing it as if the FCC has a choice. It doesn't. It works at the behest of the government which has changed due to the election.

It sucks but if you don't like it and you didn't vote Clinton it's your fault.

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The only re-assuring thing to me about this is: Pretty much anything ridiculous the Republicans accomplish in the next 2-4 years can almost certainly be reversed once they (purposefully or not) knock some sense back into the American public.

with major policy shifts underway, consider this a freeze until it all shakes out.