"But Barbara van Schewick, a law professor and net-neutrality expert at Stanford University, believes that the FCC's independence has its limits. "Chairman Pai is up for re-nomination," she said, adding that Republican lawmakers were "burnt really badly'' by their repeal of the commission's impending internet-privacy rules earlier this year. "I think that has demonstrated to a lot of members that these are issues that their constituents care about passionately.""
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