Adam KlasfeldApr 1st, 2021, 11:08 am Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Over the howls of protest of nearly half of U.S. states, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday in a ruling finding old regulations limiting cross-ownership of media outlets obsolete. The advocacy group Prometheus Radio Project feared that the shelving the former restrictions, an action undertaken by the FCC’s Trump-appointed ex-chairman Ajit Pai, would weaken ownership and viewpoint diversity in the press. Prometheus had early success in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which vacated the FCC’s order. But the Supreme Court had the final word, with all nine justices finding that the Commission’s decision to strike the old regulations was not arbitrary and capricious.