FCC’s Pai: If the UN keeps trying to regulate the Web, we should consider pulling funding

The United States should consider withdrawing its funding from the International Telecommunications Union if the United Nations agency keeps trying to assert regulatory authority over the Internet, suggests Federal Communications Commission member Ajit Pai. He hinted that the intergovernmental body’s proposed rules — which critics say gives governments more power to censor the Web — may have put the group’s future in jeopardy. “If the organization decides to become an international regulatory authority for the Internet, we will have to ask ourselves whether the United States should remain one of its top two funders.”