Ajit Pai

Public Servant

India

1973 - Present

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Like many consumers, I love Uber. But not everyone does.
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The Internet has enriched my own life immeasurably.
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I think it's dangerous to make a decision based on where one thinks the public may or may not be. Aside from the fact that that's not what the law prescribes, it's also, I think, not what reasoned decision-making is all about... You always try to look at the facts and apply the law faithfully.
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President Clinton got it right in 1996 when he established a free-market-based approach to this new thing called the Internet, and the Internet economy we have is a result of his light-touch regulatory vision.
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Under the law, the FCC does not have the authority to revoke a license of a broadcast station based on the content of a particular newscast.
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Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities.
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The scourge of unlawful robocalls is technically complex to address, and no single action will get the job done.
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In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.
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Next-generation networks are hard to build. It takes a lot of money and effort to lay fiber, install wireless infrastructure, build satellite earth stations, and more. It also requires a reasonably certain business case for deployment, which is all too often hard to prove in parts of the country with sparse population and/or lower incomes.
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The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.
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