Who is Ajit Pai, the “Trump soldier” remaking America’s internet?

Who is Ajit Pai, the “Trump soldier” remaking America’s internet?

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https://qz.com/1133973/net-neutrality-who-is-ajit-pai-the-trump-soldier-coming-for-your-internet/

Donald Trump’s new Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai promised last December to bring a “weed-wacker” to the agency that oversees the US’s media and telecommunications industries. He appears to be wielding a chain saw instead.

Since taking the office in January, Pai, 44, a former attorney for Verizon and Congressional aide to attorney general Jeff Sessions, has trashed rules that protected local media competition, eviscerated a program that gives poor people greater access to the internet, and decided that competition exists even when there’s just one internet provider in a market.

Who is Ajit Pai, the “Trump soldier” remaking America’s internet?

Nov 22, 2017, 7:14pm UTC
https://qz.com/1133973/net-neutrality-who-is-ajit-pai-the-trump-soldier-coming-for-your-internet/ >Donald Trump’s new Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai promised last December to bring a “weed-wacker” to the agency that oversees the US’s media and telecommunications industries. He appears to be wielding a chain saw instead. >Since taking the office in January, Pai, 44, a former attorney for Verizon and Congressional aide to attorney general Jeff Sessions, has trashed rules that protected local media competition, eviscerated a program that gives poor people greater access to the internet, and decided that competition exists even when there’s just one internet provider in a market.