How Silicon Valley became the FCC chair’s scapegoat
Don’t expect Pai to follow up his critique of Silicon Valley with any regulatory action. His main impact on the FCC since taking the agency over has been to have it do less in nearly every instance. Republicans presumably wouldn’t want the agency get into the business of policing speech. “It’s hard to imagine what substantive thing he would do, aside from throwing gasoline on the fire and letting some conservative take the charge from there,” said Zach Graves, director of technology and innovation policy at R Street Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank focused on tech issues. “He probably can’t be the person to lead this.”
