It has been reported that Sen. John Thune called out the FCC this week, saying that its recently passed net neutrality rules have exactly the opposite effect on protecting an open internet.

The Federal Communications Commission in last month voted 3-2 in support of reclassifying the Web as a Title II telecom service.

According to Chairman Tom Wheeler, the reclassification of the internet as Title II will be the strongest open internet protections ever proposed.

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Thune during an oversight hearing on Wednesday said that it was also one of the most important and most controversial decisions in the agency's history.

Scolding Wheeler and Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn Thune said, "Rather than exercising regulatory humility, the three majority commissioners chose to take the most radical, polarizing, and partisan path possible".

Thune continues saying that instead of working with him and his colleagues in the House and Senate on a bipartisan basis, the three chose an option which in his view would increase political, regulatory, and legal uncertainty.

This will ultimately hurt several Internet users, and will also jeopardize the open Internet that they all are making efforts to protect, he added.

It has been told that the FCC's 2010 net neutrality rules were struck down by a court last year. And now reclassification of the Web as a Title II service is seen as a way around by the opponents of the net neutrality.

Wheeler said he intends to take a modern approach to regulating the Internet, promising no rate regulations, tariffs, or last-mile unbundling.

Thune has even co-authored a bill that would limit the FCC's ability to reclassify broadband as a telecom service. The bill will also ban blocking content and throttling data.