Regulatory Capture
Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism.
16 min readJun 5, 2022
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The Murder of Net Neutrality Was Wild
Here’s a story about “regulatory capture”: Donald Trump appointed Ajit Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, to run the Federal Communications Commission, which is in charge of regulating companies like Verizon. Verizon — and the other big telcos and cable…