PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has tapped Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commissions senior Republican member, to head the regulatory agency. The appointment, announced by the FCC today, does not require congressional approval since Pai is already an FCC commissioner.
The agencys net neutrality rules, which re-classified internet service providers as Title II common carriers similar to utility providers, are amongs the rules Pai hopes to whack. On the day that the Title II Order was adopted, I said that I dont know whether this plan will be vacated by a court, reversed by Congress, or overturned by a future Commission. But I do believe that its days are numbered,' Pai said at the Free State Foundation event. Today, I am more confident than ever that this prediction will come true.
But even with a majority, FCC Republicans might not be able to easily turn back the clock, Wheeler argued in a farewell speech earlier this month. The effort to undo an open Internet will face the high hurdle, imposed by the Administrative Procedure Act, of a fact-based showing that so much has changed in just two short years that a reversal is justified, he said.
In that regard, the Republican-dominated congress will likely be a bigger threat to net neutrality regulations and other existing FCC powers. The GOP has been working to kill the FCCs net neutrality rules since before they were even passed by the agency.
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/trumps-fcc-pick-signals-end-net-neutrality-efforts/
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