The concept of the Federal Communications Commission repealing net neutrality is nothing new, but putting it this far into action is something that is sending internet users into a panic.

While everyone focuses their attention of what is it exactly that the FCC is doing, what is not being discussed is why they are doing it.

FCC chairman Ajit Pai, appointed by United States president Donald Trump, explained in an exclusive interview with the Public Broadcasting Service his intentions with the repeal of net neutrality.

“My concern is with the particular regulations that the FCC adopted two years ago,” Pai said. “They are what is called Title II regulations developed in the 1930s to regulate the Ma Bell telephone monopoly. And my concern is that, by imposing those heavy-handed economic regulations on Internet service providers big and small, we could end up disincentivizing companies from wanting to build out Internet access to a lot of parts of the country, in low-income, urban and rural areas, for example.”

Title II of the Communications Act is often referred to in this debate as the key to net neutrality. In a nutshell, Title II keeps the FCC from enforcing block, throttling, and paid prioritization for websites that are in their favor. But with the repeal, the FCC would be able to monitor the internet to their expectations, create “fast lanes” for websites that require payments under subscriptions, and would allow industries and websites to be more “transparent.” The argument against Title II refers more to smaller internet services that struggle to operate under Title II, and find it difficult to update their fiber networks because of it.

While the intention of removing net neutrality is to up the monitoring on the internet, it would also allow telecomes to favor certain websites and block certain things as they please. This would dismantle the concept of freedom of expression and promotes censorship.