Ajit Pai’s net neutrality plan is nonsense
April 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Three stories about FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to roll back net neutrality dropped over the course of last night into this morning, all containing basically the same information. According to The Wall Street Journal, Multichannel News, and Reuters, Pai:
- Met with major telecom lobbying groups on Tuesday
- Thinks net neutrality is bad and wants to roll back the FCC’s Title II classification that made it happen
- But also plans to have broadband providers stick net neutrality promises in their terms of service agreements
- So that the FTC can enforce those agreements instead of the FCC
If this sounds broadly familiar, it’s because Pai also just pushed the Republicans in Congress to roll back the FCC’s internet privacy rules so that the FTC…
