After court loss, Ajit Pai complains about states regulating broadband

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After court loss, Ajit Pai complains about states regulating broadband
Pai is mad, but FCC repeal of net neutrality pushed states to fill regulato
Court shot Pai down on preemption
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai may have belatedly concluded that federal regulation of broadband would be better for businesses than letting all 50 US states regulate Internet access.
Speaking at the WSJ Tech Live conference yesterday, Pai said that “a uniform, well-established set of regulations” is preferable to states regulating broadband individually.
“[Pai] said allowing states and local governments to pass their own laws regulating Internet services, which inherently cross state lines, creates market uncertainty,” according to CNET.
What Pai apparently failed to mention is that the United States had “a uniform, well-established set of regulations” with net neutrality rules passed during the Obama administration, until Pai himself led a vote to eliminate those rules and deregulate the broadband industry.
Pai tried to have it both ways by eliminating the uniform, nationwide regulation while also ordering states not to regulate broadband themselves.
But Pai’s FCC overstepped its authority when it issued that blanket order to preempt any and all current and future state regulation of net neutrality, a panel of judges at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled this month.
The judges’ reasoning was simple: Pai’s FCC lost the power to stop all state laws when it abandoned its own regulatory authority.
“[I]n any area where the Commission lacks the authority to regulate, it equally lacks the power to preempt state law,” the judges’ ruling said.
On the plus side for Pai, the judges’ opinion upheld the FCC’s repeal of federal net neutrality rules and leaves the door open for the FCC to challenge specific state laws on a case-by-case basis.
But in the meantime, Pai’s failure in court could subject ISPs to different rules in each state, with no guarantee that the FCC will be able to preempt any or all of those state laws.
One solution for Pai would be for Congress to pass a law preventing states from regulating broadband

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