As FCC chairman, his mandate is to protect American citizens and consumers. Instead, he is a corporate lobbyist whose ties to the Sinclair Broadcasting behemoth are so egregious that Democratic senators are demanding an investigation.
Pai’s attempt to shut down the open Internet as a free forum is so wide of the legal mark that Tim Wu in the Times doubts that it will stand judicial scrutiny.
FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn is a different story.
In the pdf she’s issued to expose Pai’s fraud, I love the way she unpacks his euphemisms and flim flam vocabulary and tells us the realpolitik behind Pai’s con job.