Schumer: Democrats will fight net neutrality roll back ‘tooth and nail’

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Democrats in Congress will fight “tooth and nail” against the Trump administration plan to roll back “net neutrality” regulations.

Ajit Pai, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced during a speech Wednesday his intention to offer a proposed rulemaking in May to dismantle the Obama-era FCC ruling in 2015 that classified Internet service providers like AT&T and Comcast as Title II public utilities, subject to FCC control, which allowed more stringent oversight over companies that might block or inhibit access to certain types of web services by creating pay-to-play fast lanes for certain content.

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