"...That's why Pai is an advocate of what's known as "light touch" regulation, the kind that prevailed on the internet during its headiest growth years from 1995 to 2015, but disappeared after Obama imposed net neutrality.
That's why Pai was wise to get rid of net neutrality. It posed a hindrance to growth and innovation on the internet, in favor of an absurd forced economic equality.
Internet socialism.
The Democratic far left and progressive movement have not only opposed this sensible reversal by Pai of a costly and damaging rule, but have made it personal in a very politically sickening, verging on violent, way.
It kicked off when HBO funnyman John Oliver ranted one night and started his own pro-net-neutrality, anti-Ajit Pai campaign.
He called it the "Go FCC Yourself," and told those who agreed with him to hit the FCC's website with comments in support net neutrality.
And they did.
But things quickly spun out of control, as an internet stunt morphed into an internet mob, and then into a real mob.
Noah Rothman, writing in Commentary, describes what happened: "Those comments were peppered with claims that Pai was a pedophile, a 'dirty, sneaky Indian' who should self-deport and reminders that anonymous online hordes maintain the 'power to murder Ajit Pai and his family.' "
Ah yes, the Democrats, the party of racial tolerance and understanding..."
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