RAMON ALVARADO

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai called out Twitter at an event held by the R Street Institute in Washington on Tuesday, November 28.

Pai is calling out Twitter and similar companies, accusing them of censorship.

“Let’s not kid ourselves, when it comes to an open internet, Twitter is part of the problem,” Pai said at the event. “The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.”

In Pai’s mind, sites like Twitter is the real threat to an open internet because they pick and choose what is posted based on their political agenda.

Pai previously accused Twitter of blocking a video from being posted by Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn. The video promoted Blackburn’s pro-life message, but Twitter came out to say that the video was not censored.

At the R Street Institute event, Pai went on to say Twitter has a “double standard when it comes to suspending or de-verifying conservative users’ accounts as opposed to those of liberal users.”

Pai called out the companies in defense of his plan to save the internet. His plan includes restoring the internet back to the legal framework established by Bill Clinton in the 1990s with a few changes.

The FCC was urged by the Obama Administration to change Clinton’s framework in early 2015, and it did so. New rules were put in place, prohibiting broadband providers from regulating traffic.

Others rules were enforced on internet companies, such as Netflix and Google. They could no longer pay to reach their customers faster than their competition.

In his remarks on restoring the internet, in a document posted on the FCC website, Pai says his plan will “bring back the same framework that governed the internet for most of its existence.”

Whether or not Pai’s plan to bring back the old framework would be beneficial is up for debate, there is surely net neutrality supporters who disagree with the FCC chairman.