Warren Blasts Pai on Net Neutrality, Aiding Monopoly Takeovers
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is making it easier for "giant telecom companies to get bigger and even more powerful," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said at an Open Markets Institute panel Wednesday. Warren condemned Pai's proposed rollback of net neutrality rules…
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(see 1712060058) as "another example of how the Trump administration is tilting the playing field toward big corporations." Warren criticized AT&T buying Time Warner and Sinclair/Tribune as harmful by locking up competition that could create choice and lower prices. She praised DOJ for seeking to block AT&T/TW (see 1711210005) but worried the move is politically motivated. "It's essential that the courts and public approach this case like any other, and not base a decision on Trump's desire to punish an enemy," she said, referring to Trump's criticism of TW's CNN. "Competition is worth fighting for, and will make the country stronger."