Net Neutrality Rollback Worries 'False, Foolish,' Pai Says

Two years to the day since FCC's Communications Act Title II rollback took effect, predictions of hugely anti-consumer results "have proven as false today as foolish back then," Chairman Ajit Pai said at a Federalist Society event Thursday. His address largely recapped steps the agency took to deal with the pandemic. He said such deregulatory steps as the net neutrality rollback resulted in big fiber infrastructure investments that made U.S. broadband networks able to handle increased traffic during the pandemic.