The telecom industry and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai justified the Republican repeal of net neutrality protections in December of 2017 with promises that a “light-touch framework” would spur investment, giving broadband providers “stronger incentives to build networks, especially in unserved areas, and to upgrade networks.”
“The cornerstone of Ajit Pai’s net neutrality repeal order has quickly crumbled.”
—Gigi Sohn, former FCC lawyer
However, according to recent reports, in the year after the repeal—which officially took effect last June—cable companies’ investments actually fell, just as net neutrality supporters had warned they would.
Those fighting the rollback pointed to the declines in spending as just one piece of evidence that the deregulation push by Pai—a former Verizon lawyer appointed by President Donald Trump—was always designed to benefit industry at the public’s expense.
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“The repeal of net neutrality is nothing but a massive government handout to some of the most unscrupulous, and least popular, corporations in the United States,” Fight for the Future’s Evan Greer told Motherboard. “It’s not helping workers at these companies. It’s not helping people in rural communities. It’s not closing the digital divide.”
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