A quick read to put December 14 on your radar, the one year anniversary of the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality protections. Fight for the Future comments on topics including speaking to the state of play, recent Internet-wide protests, and what’s next for net neutrality and tech policy more broadly.

• Last year on December 14, 2017, under the leadership of Ajit Pai — a former top lawyer for telecom giant Verizon — the FCC repealed the historic Obama-era net neutrality protections.
• This came after millions of Americans sent public comments to the FCC, the vast majority in support of net neutrality. It was discovered that millions of fraudulent comments were submitted, unsurprisingly all in favor of repealing net neutrality. Now two state attorney generals have opened investigations into this fraud and activists plan to push the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives to open its own investigation.
• Since then, Governors in six states—Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Montana, Rhode Island, Vermont—have signed executive orders. Three states—Oregon, Vermont, and Washington—enacted net neutrality legislation. These states have been met with legal action from a coalition of telecommunication companies.