At his home in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC, FCC chairman Ajit Pai enjoys something most Americans don’t: a choice in who delivers high-speed internet. Pai’s address is serviced by both Comcast and Verizon, with Xfinity download speeds up to 200Mbps, and Fios speeds up to 500Mbps. Verizon’s packages even include rare synchronous download / upload speeds, instead of the crippled upload speeds most ISPs force on their customers.

So it’s a shame the FCC’s message on competition has been broken since Pai took over as chairman. In a Washington Post op-ed today, the chairs of the FCC and FTC joined forces to defend the ISP data-sharing bill, and ended up making the absurd analogy that Verizon can’t be a monopoly because it has less…

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