Former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai has been the most corrupt and dishonest FCC chairman we’ve ever seen. But allies of Big Cable have controlled the key oversight committees in Congress, so he’s gotten away with it. But on Election Day, almost 40 opponents of net neutrality were defeated, and now lawmakers who support Internet freedom control the key committees in charge of scrutinizing the FCC. An organisation called Fight for the Future is rallying every corner of the Internet to demand Congress launch a full investigation into Ajit Pai NOW and force him to respond under oath about his corrupt relationship with Big Cable and lies to the American people. If they can raise $5,000, they can amp up their campaign with online ads. Click here to chip in.
Pai has accumulated a shocking list of corrupt and questionable deeds that require further investigation. He based the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality on misleading data cherry-picked by Comcast and others that has been widely debunked. He lied to the media about a cyberattack on his agency to distract from an overwhelming public backlash to his plan. And he allowed millions of bogus comments to flood the FCC system, and still refuses to hand over public information to journalists trying to learn what went wrong.
The new Congress can drag Pai into a hearing room and force him to answer questions about all of this questionable behavior. Exposing even one of these lies could be the undoing of the FCC’s net neutrality repeal, which is already facing a wave of lawsuits. But Comcast and their ilk, who are almost certainly implicated in some if not all of Pai’s misdeeds, will be fighting an investigation tooth and nail. And the House won’t launch an inquiry unless they’re convinced Americans believe it’s a priority.
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