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Here is Senator Flake's explanation:

https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/3/op-ed-f...

He says he just wants to go back to "the FTC’s successful sensitivity-based framework".

Is he wrong? Is it spin?

Jeff Flake is my senator and I honestly like him on so many issues. I'm very confused by this and trying to get to the bottom of it.

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Flake's article is full of spin. The FCC declaring ISPs common carriers wasn't about "stealing" regulatory control over privacy from the FTC, it was the only way they could make headway on net neutrality. If Congress wanted to give responsibility for this back to the FTC, that's what they should be voting on, this doesn't do that. Using the rollback is just lazy.

Edit: Oh, and Telecom Services was the largest donor industry to Flake's leadership PAC (not necessarily corruption, donors give money to politicians who already agree with them too).

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?type=P&c...

I can't understand how there's anything that Jeff Flake does that you can like. The only good thing about Jeff Flake in my opinion is that he has almost no chance of reelection because even most of his own constituents can't stand him.

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