The Week:

“It seems that the Trump era will basically control-Z everything that happened on Obama’s watch,” Oliver sighed. “I genuinely would not be surprised if one night Trump went on TV just to tell us that he personally killed every turkey that Obama ever pardoned.” Now, ISPs are touting their support for a “free and open internet,” with some regulatory changes, but you should take their “support” with a grain of salt, Oliver said, briefly explaining Title I and II of the Communications Act of 1934 — the entertainment “equivalent of chasing an Ambien with a shot of chloroform.”

ISPs like Verizon want to make net neutrality essentially voluntary, and “they now have a powerful ally,” Trump’s new FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, Oliver said. “The dangerous thing about Pai is that he presents himself as a fun, down-to-earth nerd,” with a Twitter feed full of Big Lebowski quotes and a novelty mug he describes as “infamous.” “But for all of Pai’s doofy, hey-I’m-just-like-you-guys persona, there are some things about him that you should really know,” he explained — like that he’s a former lawyer for Verizon who despises regulation, and that some of his ideas to replace Title II are “almost laughably lax.”

Yeah, he’s done it before but the issue has raised its ugly head once again.