Not long ago Ajit Pai was mostly unknown to the American people. Now he's among the most reviled.

The reason: As Federal Communications Commission chairman, he has led the charge to end net-neutrality rules. This week, the FCC's board voted 3-2 to end the protections.

With the rules repeal, internet providers no longer will have to treat all content equally, meaning they could slow or block some sites or "create paid fast lanes."

On his Thursday show, late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel called the FCC's decision "despicable" and Pai a "jackhole."

"They did this even though 83 percent of Americans support net neutrality," he continued.

Pai, appointed chairman by President Donald Trump, has responded to the criticism by starring in a video for the conservative website The Daily Caller in which he skirts the actual issue entirely. In the video, he insists that the FCC's goal is to "restore internet freedom" and that after the ending of the "Obama-era regulations" you'll still be able to shop online, upload photos of your dog and do the Harlem Shake.

Wrote the Daily Caller: "You may not agree with Pai on everything, and we expect he will get some hate for this, but you got to respect a guy who does the Harlem Shake in 2017."

Sure enough, Pai has received plenty of negative reactions to the video. The A.V. Club, for one, called it "a bit of textbook 'smug assh--- gloating'" that's "straight out of the playbook of his boss, Donald Trump."

Tech site Gizmodo was astonished that, in his attempt to win friends and influence people, Pai had "decided to resort to his time-honored tactic of being incredibly condescending." The site called the video "cringe-inducing" and pointed out that conspiracy theorist Martina Markota appears to be one of the Daily Caller employees dancing with Pai in the Harlem Shake segment.

Markota, write Gizmodo and BuzzFeed, was a prominent proponent of the alt-right PizzaGate hoax that claimed a restaurant in Washington, D.C., was the hub of a child-sex-trafficking operation run by Democrats.

Watch the video below.