FCC to roll back Obama's 'net neutrality' regulations June 11

Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai said Thursday that “unnecessary and harmful Internet regulations” created under the Obama administration will be removed June 11 as part of the Restoring Internet Freedom Order.

“The Internet wasn’t broken in 2015, when the prior FCC buckled to political pressure and imposed heavy-handed Title II rules on the Internet economy. It doesn’t make sense to apply outdated rules from 1934 to the Internet, but that’s exactly what the prior administration did,” Pai said in his statement, referencing the former President Barack Obama administration’s implementation of “net neutrality.”