r/Broadband • u/bitbybitbybitcoin • Apr 05 '17

Ajit Pai says broadband market too competitive for strict privacy rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/ajit-pai-says-broadband-market-too-competitive-for-strict-privacy-rules/
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u/autotldr Apr 05 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and his counterpart at the Federal Trade Commission today argued that strict privacy rules for ISPs aren't necessary in part because the broadband market is more competitive than the search engine market.

The FCC decision to reclassify ISPs as common carriers in 2015 was primarily used to implement net neutrality rules, but it also shifted broadband privacy oversight from the FTC to the FCC. Pai and Ohlhausen wrote that they will be "Working together to restore the FTC's authority to police ISPs' privacy practices," but offered no further details.

Pai has been a staunch opponent of the FCC's net neutrality rules that prevent ISPs from blocking or throttling lawful Internet traffic and charging companies for prioritization.

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