Demonstrator on the issue of net neutrality at the U.S. Capitol February 27, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Net neutrality is poised for a resurgence after the Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to begin the process of reestablishing the so-called open internet rules.
The vote revives a debate that last came to a head in 2017 when the agency voted to reverse the net neutrality rules created just a couple of years earlier.
Republican Commissioner Brendan Carr pointed to statements from Democratic lawmakers in support of net neutrality and called the earlier campaign for the rules a "viral disinformation campaign."
"We're now faced with advocates who can't accept that they won and that we have de facto net neutrality," Republican Commissioner Nathan Simington said.
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Democrats Rosenworcel, Gomez, Geoffrey Starks, Carr, Simington, Jessica Rosenworcel, Anna Gomez, Biden, Gigi Sohn, Brendan Carr, We're, Nathan Simington, Rosenworcel, They're
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U.S, Capitol, Federal Communications, Democrats, Democratic, Republican, Communications, Comcast, CNBC, White
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Washington ,, California, Sacramento