Chairman Pai lays out his vision for an internet without net neutrality rules

A Q&A with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai. 

On the topic of the Federal Trade Commission handling enforcement of open Internet rules, the following exchange took place:

Kai Ryssdal: "[The] Federal Trade Commission, while they’re lovely people and hard-serving civil servants and we appreciate all they do, they are overworked, they focus not solely on telecommunications and the injury has to happen first and then they can fix it after the fact".

Chairman Pai: "That's completely untrue. Chairman [Joseph] Simons the new chairman of the FTC, recently testified before the Senate, and he said they would aggressively use their Section 5 authority to take action against any unfair deceptive trade practice or any unfair method of competition."

Ryssdal: "But still you leave it to the consumer to bring the complaint."

Chairman Pai: "No, that's not true. The FTC can and has taken action, enforcement action against companies on its own."