Trump's FCC chief takes aim at California's net neutrality bill, reviving threadbare arguments
Ajit Pai, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is mightily ticked off at California's effort to impose network neutrality rules on the internet after he worked so hard to kill them.
We know this thanks to a speech Pai delivered Friday to the right-wing Maine Heritage Policy Center. During the talk, he couldn't resist taking potshots at the state's initiative, which is currently on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk awaiting his signature.
In his talk, Pai called the measure "a radical, anti-consumer internet regulation bill." Referring to the Obama-era FCC regulations that he had overturned, he groused that the California measure would "impose restrictions even more burdensome than those adopted by the
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