“Do we want the government to control the Internet? Or do we want to embrace the light-touch approach established by President Clinton and a Republican Congress in 1996 and repeatedly reaffirmed by Democratic and Republican FCCs alike?”— Ajit Pai, recode.net
“The internet was free and open from the dawn of the internet age during the Clinton administration until 2015.”— Ajit Pai, recode.net
“By imposing those heavy-handed economic regulations on Internet service providers big and small, we could end up disincentivizing companies from wanting to build out Internet access to a lot of parts of the country, in low-income, urban and rural areas, for example.”— Ajit Pai, pbs.org
“In order to justify preemptive regulation of all 4,462 Internet service providers, you should have pretty concrete evidence of an overwhelming market failure.”— Ajit Pai, pbs.org