Ajit Pai, the man who stood against net neutrality in the US will now regulate Blockchain to effectively manage the telecom sector. He is best known for his role against net neutrality law enforced by Barack Obama’s government. Considering the potential dependency of the blockchain on the internet, it is likely that Pai and the public ledger technology will face each other down the road in near future.

Pai is concenred about the potential impact of technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum computing on the telecom sector.

He said, “We don’t have jurisdiction over these firms, but that’s one of the things we are trying to learn about, What are the emerging technologies that will have an effect on this space and how should our thinking about regulation evolve.”

Pai chairs the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and had his active participation against the net neutrality law enforced during Barack Obama’s government. After wrongly citing cryptocurrencies as one of the main cause for delayed internet network, Pai was cornered by the technologists.

As per the technologists, the law against Net Neutrality is a potential threat to the crypto industry. That’s because firms could be entitled to go through corporate censorship involving privacy compromise with their ISPs. Pai’s comments on blockchain come during a moment when regulators are susceptible about technology’s impact under a governed system.