FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has been tapped to be the commission’s next chairman.
Net neutrality may be enjoying its final days after President Donald Trump ‘s latest appointment.
The president on Monday named FCC commissioner Ajit Pai to head the agency, which in 2015 adopted rules to preserve net neutrality. Pai, who replaces outgoing Chairman Tom Wheeler, a staunch defender of net neutrality , has already expressed a desire to dismantle those rules.
“During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,” he said during a public appearance at a luncheon last month ( PDF ).
