Net neutrality is on the FCC's chopping block

President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission is going to try to eliminate net neutrality next month. On Tuesday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will announce his specific plans for completely repealing the net neutrality regulations established by President Barack Obama, according to Politico. Pai's plan will include ending rules that ban internet service providers from creating paid fast internet fast lanes or deliberately blocking or slowing web traffic, eliminating the legal framework used to justify increasing federal regulation of internet service providers, and ask the Federal Trade Commission to determine whether internet service providers are stifling competition. It will also end the general conduct standard that held internet service providers to strict transparency rules, among them letting customers know about whether or not they block or throttle online traffic. Because the current panel of FCC commissioners contains three Republicans and two Democrats, Pai's changes are expected to pass along party lines next month, according to The New York Times.