Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, says the three-page Save the Internet Act doing the rounds in Congress — a push to reinstate Obama-era protections that treated broadband access as a utility — is a political play.

“Most people, I think, accurately view it as more of a political strategy, as opposed to solv[ing] a concrete problem,” Pai said last week at digital skills nonprofit Hopeworks Camden. “I don’t blame them — that’s what politicians in Washington do — but I am focused on what I think American consumers’ primary concern is: getting better, cheaper internet access, and that’s what the FCC’s been focused on so far.”

Pai was in the neighboring New Jersey city on Thursday in a bid to learn about Hopeworks, which connect at-risk youth with tech training. On Friday, he also took in a tour of makerspace NextFab in Wilmington.

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