NetCompetition: Chairman Pai Doing Right Thing in the Right Way on Title II

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 26, 2017, Contact:  Scott Cleland 703-217-2407

In Openly Previewing His Plans for Overturning the FCC’s 2015 Title II Open Internet Order, FCC Chairman Pai FCC is Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reasons in the Right Way, in Contrast to the Wheeler FCC Doing the Wrong Thing, for the Wrong Reasons, in the Wrong Way 

WASHINGTON D.C. – The following may be attributed to Scott Cleland, Chairman of NetCompetition: 

“FCC Chairman Pai is giving a clinic in FCC and regulatory leadership: in doing the right thing, i.e. starting the process of returning the FCC to the bipartisan, light regulatory, Internet approach that worked exceptionally well from 1996-2015; for the right reasons, i.e. the 2015 order was unnecessary, unwarranted and uncertain, and repealing it will promote economic growth, jobs, broadband deployment and competition; and in the right way, i.e. openly stating what the FCC will be doing and why, and promising the UNPRECEDENTED FCC TRANSPARENCY OF SHOWING A DRAFT FCC PROPOSAL TO THE PUBLIC THREE WEEKS BEFORE A PUBLIC VOTE!”

“If the previous FCC had not acted for the wrong reasons, i.e. because of inappropriate White House pressure, in the wrong way, i.e. claiming to be all for openness but running a non-transparent decision-making process, they would never have done the wrong thing: i.e. hyper-regulating an economically productive and competitive industry that had done nothing to warrant any regulation, let alone the strongest possible monopoly/utility regulation.”

NETCompetition.org is a pro-competition e-forum representing broadband interests.

Scott Cleland served as Deputy U.S. Coordinator for  International Communications and Information Policy in the George H. W. Bush Administration.