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The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is moving to roll back his agency’s Net Neutrality rules, a plan critics warn could deal another blow to online privacy protections.

Now that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have gutted internet privacy protections, their next order of business is to fast-track repeal of groundbreaking Net Neutrality rules that proponents say ensure “access to social, political, and economic empowerment for all.”

According to multiple reports, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai outlined his plans to undo the Obama-era regulations during a meeting with a group of industry lobbyists.

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.

President Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, met with phone- and cable-industry lobbyists to unveil his plan to undermine the landmark Net Neutrality protections that were passed in 2015.

Couldn’t they have just let us keep the internet? Was that too much to ask?

Net Neutrality advocates are feeling emboldened by the outcry over the GOP’s repeal of internet-privacy regulations, viewing it as an opportunity to harness grassroots support for their cause.

Matt Wood, policy director with Free Press, discussed internet privacy with Mike Rogers of Raw Story.

President Trump delivered a major gift to the nation’s largest cable and phone companies by signing a bill that kills federal rules designed to protect consumers from broadband-industry privacy abuses.

WASHINGTON — Thirty-two members of Congress on Tuesday sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to abide by the Communications Act and follow the Net Neutrality rules passed by the FCC in 2015.