Ad compares Beijing Internet censors with FCC chief

Published January 6, 2016 8:11pm ET



The chairman of President Obama’s Federal Communications Commission is no different than the communist leader of China’s information ministry, a full-page ad in Wednesday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal suggests.

The ad, paid for by the nonprofit group Protect Internet Freedom, features a vignette of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s head fused with that of Lu Wei, the head of China’s State Internet Information Office. Beneath the portrayal is a quote from each.

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