NO, REALLY? The FCC’s Big Internet Power Grab Comes Directly From the White House.

Activists had pressured Wheeler throughout last year to pursue Title II reclassification of broadband service, which would make its regulatory treatment more like a utility, but Wheeler resisted.

Then in November, President Obama unexpectedly weighed in, siding firmly with the activists who wanted reclassification in a video calling for the FCC to adopt the “strongest possible rules” to protect net neutrality.

The FCC chief swiftly changed his views.