Lori Erlendsson attends a pro-net neutrality Internet activist rally in the neighborhood where U.S. President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser in Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 23, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn/File Photo
The US Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 on May 18 to advance a Republican plan to reverse the Obama administration's 2015 "net neutrality" order.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wants the commission repeal the rules that reclassified Internet service providers as if they were utilities. He thinks the open Internet rules adopted under former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, were unnecessary and harm jobs and investment.
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