Trump’s F.C.C. Chairman Fires Warning Shot at Jack Dorsey
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trumps-fcc-chairman-fires-warning-shot-at-jack-dorsey
Ajit Pai defended his proposal to nuke net-neutrality by villainizing Big Tech.
As major tech companies are summoned one by one to Capitol Hill to testify, like misbehaving toddlers, about the extent to which they unwittingly facilitated Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the glossy Silicon Valley starlets that once enchanted congresspeople are beginning to lose their shine. Lawmakers are weighing whether to follow in the U.K.’s footsteps and introduce stricter regulations for tech companies. In September, House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission urging it to regulate online political ads the same way it would ads in other mediums. And a bipartisan group of senators last month unveiled a bill called the Honest Ads Act, which would require Internet companies to adhere to federal disclosure regulations. As the rumblings grow louder despite years of bipartisan lobbying efforts on the part of Big Tech, it’s not entirely surprising that Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Ajit Pai, latched onto the same narrative to defend his plan to completely eradicate Obama-era net-neutrality policies...
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