> He talks about the "light touch" framework of the Bill Clinton era, which saw telecos profit immensely and never feed any money back into their system.

Even in the 1990s it was obvious that the copper network was obsolete and any additional money put into it would be a wasted investment.

> Comcast sued the Electric Power Board in TN a few years later to keep them from offering Fibre to the home

Chairman Pai specifically speaks about FCC initiatives to increase competition including opening up access to utility poles. It's a difficult issue because many utility poles/corridors are locally or municipally owned and the FCC has no jurisdiction there.

> Even if he says Title II isn't the right framework, why gut it until it's replaced.

The point is that it doesn't need to be replaced. It's a heavy-handed and unnecessary imposition of federal regulation on a market that needs to be as free and open as possible due to the speed of innovation in the tech space.