‘I don’t think consumers are going to see any change at all,’ FCC chief says of net neutrality repeal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2018/06/11/i-dont-think-consumers-are-going-to-see-any-change-at-all-fcc-chairman-pai-says-of-net-neutrality-repeal-in-qa/
The U.S. government’s net neutrality protections may have been wiped from federal rulebooks on Monday, but the battle is only just beginning. The architect of that repeal, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, must still contend with a challenge to his efforts in federal court, a campaign on Capitol Hill to roll his changes back and a slew of states that are looking to regulate in the FCC’s place.
In an interview Friday at the chairman’s eighth-floor FCC office, Pai stressed that much of the blowback he’s received is due to “misinformation.” He said consumers would be just fine under the new regime, which hands off enforcement of net neutrality violations to the U.S. government’s competition regulator. And he signaled potential legal action to come against states enacting their own net neutrality laws.
