The Washington Post alleged that X, formerly known as Twitter, has throttled traffic to websites he reportedly dislikes, which has reignited the debate over net neutrality.
Silicon Valley companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter at the time criticized the FCC’s net neutrality repeal, arguing that it will allow Internet service providers such as Comcast or Verizon to block, throttle, and prefer content at will.
This is something that Pai has long said when defending his “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” that repealed net neutrality. He argued that companies like Twitter/X, so-called edge providers, are the likely parties to censor Americans. “Indeed, despite all the talk about the fear that broadband providers could decide what Internet content consumers can see, recent experience shows that so-called edge providers are in fact
deciding what content they see,” Pai said during a speech in 2017. “These providers routinely block or discriminate against content they don’t like.”the platform’s approach to content it judges to be “lawful but awful:” “So if you’re going to post something that’s illegal or against the law, you’re gone…But more importantly, if you’re going to post something that is lawful but it’s awful, you get labeled, you get de-amplified and it is certainly demonetized,” she said.
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