WASHINGTON, D.C., November 30, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai scolded Twitter this week for censoring conservative users of its platform.
Twitter strongly opposes Pai’s plan to repeal the Obama-era “net neutrality” rules for a return to pre-2015 regulatory framework and has said it will fight the effort, a stance the FCC chair dubbed pretense.
“Now look,” Pai said, “I love Twitter, and I use it all the time. But let’s not kid ourselves; when it comes to an open Internet, Twitter is part of the problem.”
“The company has a viewpoint,” he added, “and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.”
Pai offered an example of Twitter recently blocking a Senate campaign announcement ad for U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, “because it featured a pro-life message.”
At a July event to protect net neutrality rules, Twitter had also warned users that a link to one company’s statement on Internet regulation “may be unsafe,” noted Pai.
“And, to say the least, the company appears to have a double standard when it comes to suspending or de-verifying conservative users’ accounts as opposed to those of liberal users,” Pai stated. “This conduct is many things, but it isn’t fighting for
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