Many in the media are already writing the epitaph for net neutrality in the Trump era. And it’s true that with every new press release and statement out of the Federal Communications Commission (and they’re coming fast and furious) it’s become pretty clear that new chairman Ajit Pai is aligning the agency with Donald Trump’s business-friendly and less consumer-friendly agenda.

But six weeks into the new administration, it seems less and less likely that Pai has it in mind to completely kill the network neutrality principles embodied by ex-chairman Tom Wheeler’s 2015 Open Internet Order. The commission approved the order with a 3-2 vote along party lines, with Pai dissenting.

The order effectively classified broadband as a public utility, and restricted big ISPs like Comcast and Verizon from selling online “fast lanes” to big internet companies. It also prohibited the ISPs from slowing down (throttling) or blocking (legal) internet traffic based on the content of the data packets.

Ted Cruz once characterized network neutrality principles as “Obamacare for the Internet,” and he may have been more right than he knew. In fact, Republicans might try the same reduce-not-replace approach to the order that they’re now proposing as an answer to Obamacare. Pai and his GOP friends might favor an Open Internet Order “Lite.”

Pai is more likely to to scale back the effects of the order, rather than pushing the commission to withdraw it or asking Congress to pass legislation that overrides it, two commission insiders who insisted on anonymity told Fast Company.

Pai may “soften” the order by allowing broadband carriers some kinds of web traffic prioritization or throttling under clearly defined conditions, one source said. For example, if a broadband customer is paying for 100 megabit-per-second broadband service, the provider might be allowed to prioritize some kinds of bandwidth-sensitive traffic (like video) in order to meet the speed promise.

Because the net neutrality order is now final, and because it’s already survived a legal challenge in federal appeals court, it would be hard to reverse, says a lawyer familiar with the workings of the FCC. It might take action in Congress to do it, and, the source pointed out, neither Congress nor the Trump administration have indicated that that is a high priority right now.