Unraveling Obama-era net neutrality rules, the president's spokesman Sean Spicer said late this week .
Enacted in February 2015 under then-president Barack Obama, these rules classified large companies like Comcast ( cmcsa ) that deliver Internet to consumers as public utilities.
That meant those companies were unable to discriminate against content providers based on the type and amount of content delivered.
Besides Comcast Comcast , other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) affected by the rules include Charter Communications ( chtr ) (which bought Time Warner last year), Verizon , and AT&T ( t ) .
Trump's disdain for net neutrality is no surprise.
This news came just days after the Republican-controlled Congress voted to reverse privacy rules that prevent ISPs from accessing and possibly selling personal browsing information.
Supporters of the reversal said those rules force ISPs to do more to protect user privacy than companies like Google ( goog ) and Facebook ( fb ) .
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