Ajit Pai as chairman of FCC all set to ‘Restoring Internet Freedom’

NEW YORK: Tuesday bought Obama administration’s net neutrality rules met their all but certain demise as per information release from Federal Communications commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai who outlined the plan while making sure state can’t impose their own regulation to fill the void, with ensuring equal access to the internet, clearing the way for internet services companies to charge users more to see certain content and with access to some websites.

Ajit released his proposal on Wednesday with broad support on the Republican –controlled FCC, leaving supporters of the 2015 policy with little recourse except to fight in the courts. Major content to set off a fight over free speech and the control of the internet, pitting telecom titans like AT&T and Verizon against internet giants like Google and Amazon. The internet companies warned that rolling back the rules could make the telecom companies powerful gatekeepers to information and entertainment. The telecom companies say that the existing rules prevent them from offering customers a wider selection of services at higher and lower price points as per new york times. Instead of rules Pai require internet services providers to be transparent about their practices, which will include disclosing whether they engage in blocking or throttling certain web traffic or if they reach paid deals with websites for faster access to consumers. The federal Trade Commission and the FCC would review those public disclosures with FCC reviewing whether they seems to be anti- competitive or anti- consumer. As to it Pai statement “under my proposal the federal government will stop micromanaging the internet”.

As he being fiercest critics of the current rules, his plan shared with his fellow commissioners Tuesday while expecting to be posted publicly on Wednesday with scraping of legal foundation, hence will also prevent internet services provider from blocking or slowing web traffic or negotiating paid deals with websites for faster access to consumers.

In current practices if State attempts to impose its own net neutrality law and a company objects to the FCC the agency could issue a ruling that could be in court room battle. However some states and cities could still try to impose their own version of net neutrality on which Jessica Melugin a policy fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute” but if someone is really hell bent on running it through the court, I think they’d have a fight on their hands, as this sending a warning shot saying we’re really serious about opening up this market and keeping regulation at any level out of the way”.

It also seem Pai’s plan is adopted fight is far from over as much as the Obama administration faced multiple court challenges, so too will trump’s FCC because as public-interest groups and tech certainly are signaling they intend to sue. Already Pai’s proposal just have created another online backlash with around 21 million web users throwing the FCC with  comments  this season urging the agency to preserve its exciting net neutrality report as per recode.