Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has come under racist attacks for his plan to roll-back Obama-era regulation of Internet called “net neutrality”, and a lot of it from fellow Indian-Americans who have unleashed a string of barbs tied to his Indian origins. “Ajit Pai is the type of Indian guy who eats dosa with a fork,” wrote Hari Kondabolu, an Indian-American comedian, on Twitter just days after Pai announced his plan. On Sunday, after Indiaspora, an organisation of Indian Americans condemned the slight campaign “led by an Indian American comedian”, Kondabolu retaliated with another tweet. Undoing it, critics argue, will allow ISPs to regulate net access, speed things up for those who pay and slow down those who don’t. Pais hasn’t spoken about the attack from his community, but he did address those that came from net neutrality activists who showed up outside his home in Virginia state.

Source: Hindustan Times December 04, 2017 04:30 UTC