Roughly one year ago, the FCC passed a controversial measure that undermined its own rules, passed just two years earlier, over net neutrality.

That anniversary has sparked a series of articles, interviews and tweets today from policymakers that highlight a critical fact: The issue remains so toxic that sober analysis and objective policy making are effectively impossible.

In what looks to be a coordinated effort, lawmakers, FCC officials and academic-lobbyists have adopted the same false logic: Claims of the damage that rejecting the rules would have on internet access have not come true and so therefore, by extension, the rule change was good.

"On this day last year, the FCC voted to restore Internet freedom. Some suggested the Internet would cease to exist… But these claims were proven false," tweeted an advisor to FCC chair Ajit Pai.

Academic fig-leaf and "non partisan" think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, repeated the same line – as it has done repeatedly with controversial FCC matters – in a blog post headlined: "Despite the media’s prophecies of doom a year ago, the internet is alive and well."

Senator Bill Cassidy kept the echo chamber alive, tweeting: "One year ago this week, after the Trump administration and Ajit Pai reversed anti-innovation internet regulations instituted by the previous administration in 2015, CNN falsely reported 'the end of the internet as we know it.' The internet's still working just fine."