The “days are numbered” for the net neutrality rules enacted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission under Barack Obama, at least if you take President Trump’s newly appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s word for it. So what happens after they are gone? Pai , an FCC commissioner since 2012, was a harsh critic of the agency’s ” Open Internet Order ,” which it passed in 2015 via a 3-2 party line vote.