“The former administration went regarding this the wrong way by forcing rules on ISPs through the FCC’s Title II rulemaking power,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said reporters yesterday. “We encourage the FCC chair’s efforts to evaluate and consider rolling back these rules and think that the best way to get fair rules for everyone is for Congress to take action and create administrative and economic certainty.”
The net neutrality laws enacted in 2015 are enforced with the FCC’s Title II jurisdiction over public carriers; a former account of the rules that did not rely upon Title II was started out in court. Under Chairman Ajit Pai’s leadership, the Republican-controlled FCC took a preliminary vote
Pai’s FCC seems determined to settle that decision later this year, with the main question being whether a weakened form of net neutrality laws will go on the books. Pai has not committed to bearing any form of net neutrality rules and has recommended that ISPs throttling websites might anyhow be good for Internet users.
To undo the Title II class and the net neutrality rules in May.
The Trump administration “believes that laws of the road are important for everyone website providers, Internet service providers, and consumers alike,” Sanders said. Trump himself hasn’t talked much about net neutrality, but in a Fall 2014 tweet he called the rules “Obama’s attack on the Internet” and declared they would “target conservative media.”
When the FCC gave the Title II net neutrality rules in 2015, Pai demanded that the then-Democratic bulk was simply doing President Obama’s bidding. Although agents and the chair are appointed by the president, the FCC is structured to be a free agency.
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