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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has gone on the attack to defend his proposal to roll back Net Neutrality regulations.

With just over two weeks left until the FCC is set to vote on chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to decimate Net Neutrality, a new study published on Tuesday by Media Matters for America found that corporate-cable and broadcast-news coverage of Pai’s proposed Net Neutrality repeal has been sorely lacking — and, in some cases, nonexistent.

It usually doesn’t take much to get people on the internet worked up. To get them really worked up, make the topic internet regulation.

Ajit Pai says the Federal Communications Commission needs to ditch its Net Neutrality rules because they’re hindering investment. But there’s no evidence to prove Pai’s point.

The FCC chairman wants to get rid of the Net Neutrality rules, which could change the web as we know it and have devastating ramifications for businesses and innovation.

No one could accuse Ajit Pai, President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, of concealing his intention to kill Net Neutrality.

Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Ajit Pai, promised last December to bring a “weed-whacker” to the agency. He appears to be wielding a chain saw instead.

We speak with Tim Karr, senior director of strategy for Free Press, which is organizing support to keep the Net Neutrality rules in place ahead of the Dec. 14 vote.

So drastic is FCC Chairman Pai’s reversal of policy, and so weak is the evidence to support the change, that the plan seems destined to be struck down in court.

Tim Karr, the senior director of strategy at the internet-rights nonprofit Free Press, said Pai’s plan would allow telecom giants like Comcast to prioritize their own websites and properties, like Comcast-owned NBC sites.