Trump Is About to Find Out What Happens When You Mess With the Open Internet

April 7, 2017

Sam Gustin, Motherboard

Trump's hand-picked Federal Communications Commission chief, Republican Ajit Pai, is preparing to work with the GOP Congress to roll back Obama-era Net Neutrality protections as part of the escalating Republican assault on consumer safeguards across broad swaths of the U.S. economy.

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