Public Knowledge Condemns FCC Commissioner Pai’s Elitist Insult to American People

It is the worst sort of dismissive and elitist insult to the American people, who have participated in the net[work] neutrality debate in unprecedented numbers and spoken with unmistakable clarity across the political spectrum, to call [Federal Communication Commission] Chairman [Tom] Wheeler’s proposal ‘Obama’s plan.’ Chairman Wheeler’s proposed Order reflects the demands of the American people, and Chairman Wheeler should be applauded as a hero for being the people’s champion for an open, fast, and fair Internet. Commissioner Pai has grown fond of saying at the FCC, ‘this is not what democracy looks like.’ Perhaps it is Commissioner Pai who can no longer recognize democracy.