The majority of American did not want this change made to their service.
During his time as President, Barack Obama set up certain net neutrality regulations, which essentially did not allow for internet providers to slow down your access to certain sites or charge for a higher speed access to your favourite sites.
American internet users did not have to pay more to get on to Facebook or Netflix and then chew their own faces off in exasperation as the buffering sign spins endlessly every five minutes or so.
This won't be the case after the Federal Communications Commission voted 3 to 2 in favour of dismantling these regulations, and the fear is spreading that America may be paving the way for other countries to do the exact same thing.
Ajit Pai was appointed a commissioner within the FCC by Barack Obama but has been a long-time and very public critic of net neutrality. Trump then made Pai the chairman of the organisation, and today Pai stated "We are restoring the light-touch framework that has governed the internet for much of its existence. This is not going to destroy the internet. It’s not going to end the internet as we know it. It’s not going to end democracy."
From the FCC's commissioners panel, two of them are Democrats (the same two who also happen to be the only women), against the three Republican members, and one of the democrats, Mignon Clyburn, had this to say about today's vote: "I am among the millions outraged. Outraged, because the F.C.C. pulls its own teeth, abdicating responsibility to protect the nation’s broadband consumers."
The vote is in direct contrast to what most Americans actually want from their internet provider, with the glimmer of good news at the end of the tunnel being that the overturning of the ruling still has to go to court, where it has already been denied twice.
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