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WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Net Neutrality advocates will protest outside Federal Communications Commission headquarters on Thursday before the agency votes on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to undo Net Neutrality protections.

The FCC vote won’t end the fight over rules that prohibit internet service providers from creating fast lanes for some content, while blocking or throttling others.

Despite overwhelming public support for a free and open internet, the FCC’s Trump-aligned majority engineered a 3-2 vote to overturn Net Neutrality rules that have required Internet service providers to treat all online communications equally.

The fight for the open internet isn’t over.

The Federal Communications Commission swept aside rules barring broadband providers from favoring the internet traffic of websites willing to pay for speedier service, sending the future of Net Neutrality on to a likely court challenge.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the FCC is expected to approve the deceptively named “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” in a party-line vote, clearing the way for blocking, throttling and discrimination by the nation’s largest phone and cable companies.

“If journalists want the public to listen, then journalists have to listen to the public. If journalists want the public to care, then journalists have to care about the public.”

With federal regulators poised to repeal Net Neutrality rules, your internet service provider would be allowed to speed up delivery of some online content to your home or phone.

Repealing Net Neutrality rules could allow internet service providers to cut speeds and jack up prices. We spoke with Joseph Torres of Free Press about the move.

American Commitment, a small nonprofit with ties to the donor network spearheaded by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, has been actively opposing Net Neutrality with social media, commentaries and a little-known coalition whose members include other Koch nonprofits and prominent conservative groups.