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After court loss, Ajit Pai complains about states regulating broadband
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 22, 2019 03:35pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Jon Brodkin |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 22, 2019 08:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Speaking at the WSJ Tech Live conference yesterday, Pai said that "a uniform, well-established set of regulations" is preferable to states regulating broadband individually. "[Pai] said allowing states and local governments to pass their own laws regulating Internet services, which inherently cross state lines, creates market uncertainty,"
What Pai apparently failed to mention is that the United States had "a uniform, well-established set of regulations" with net neutrality rules passed during the Obama administration, until Pai himself led a vote to eliminate those rules and deregulate the broadband industry. Pai tried to have it both ways by eliminating the uniform, nationwide regulation while also ordering states not to regulate broadband themselves.
But Pai's FCC overstepped its authority when it issued that blanket order to preempt any and all current and future state regulation of net neutrality, a panel of judges at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled this month. The judges' reasoning was simple: Pai's FCC lost the power to stop all state laws when it abandoned its own regulatory authority. |
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