In a movement that’s equal pieces infuriating and exasperating, Ajit Pai, the FCC’s new chair appointed by President Trump, wants to wrangle the open Internet protections established in 2015 under the Obama administration. Those customer protections mean providers such as AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Verizon are barred from preventing or slowing down access to the web.
Sites across the network will display alerts on their homepages showing “blocked,” “upgrade,” and “spinning wheel of death” pop-ups to explain what the internet would look like without net neutrality, according to support group Battle for the Net. But maximum of the pop-ups users has seen simple banners or static text amidst links offering more information.