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With Donald J. Trump now officially being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America, the survival of net neutrality has come into question. President Trump's pick for head of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is allegedly pro net neutrality, however, he is a critic of the FCC's policies on net neutrality. This mainly means that he opposes Title II. It remains to be seen if and what will be done in the case of net neutrality by FCC chairman Ajit Pai under the Trump administration.
In 2015, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 to uphold net neutrality despite criticism from large Internet serviceproviders (ISPs) who wanted the ability favor their own content. Net neutrality supporters assert that the FCC ruling prevents ISPs from transforming the Internet from an open platform into a tiered system with faster speeds and higher bandwidths for preferred users willing to pay a premium.
Following the 2015 San Bernardino attacks, the Federal Bureau of Intelligence asked Apple to create a backdoor into the iPhone so they could see if there was any useful data on the terrorists' iPhone, circumventing the system that disables the phone after 10 incorrect password attempts. This backdoor could potentially be used to let the FBI into any iPhone at their will. Apple refused the request, taking the issue to court, despite the FBI claiming it was a one time occurrence. Chief Apple executive Tim Cook explained his position by saying that a software would be like "a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks". In the end, the FBI got into the phone and no useful information was found.