FCC Chairman Pai: Net Neutrality Rules Treating Internet As Utility Stifle Growth

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

He wants the government to focus on correcting actual anti-competitive behavior that Internet providers might demonstrate, rather than regulating against hypothetical harms. "Preemptive regulation is appropriate when there's a major market failure — when the Internet is broken," he says. Chairman Pai argues that his predecessor, Tom Wheeler, unnecessarily inserted the government into the Internet economy, stifling its innovation and growth.