Months after Trump took office, though, the Federal Communications Commission repealed the Obama-era net neutrality rules. With net neutrality, some Democrats sounded an optimistic note that the House’s vote — coupled with sustained public pressure from net neutrality supporters — could shift their fortunes. Even some Democrats acknowledged that the prospects of restoring net neutrality rules in the current political climate remains unlikely. “We're still on the side of net neutrality, they're still not, and they believe they won at the FCC. In the meantime, a slew of state governments began writing and implementing net neutrality protections of their own.

Source: Washington Post April 10, 2019 15:50 UTC