December 14, 2017 was a black day in the history of the Internet. On that occasion, the FCC voted to keep or end net neutrality, also commonly known as net neutrality. The Trump administration appointed Ajit Pai, a former Verizon executive, as president of the regulator, which has undoubtedly acted at the behest of the big carriers. Despite millions of votes against the said movement, a few days before Christmas that year, the desecration was accomplished in an action so criticized that Pai had to continue trying to sell the motorcycle for a long time. your decision.

Since, several attempts were made led by the Democratic Party American, with the intention of restoring net neutrality on the Internet. In mid-2018, for example, the Senate voted to renew it, although it was more of a symbolic vote, because for this to happen, Congress would have to act in the same way, and then Trump himself would have to do it. something that was well known will not happen anyway. However, in 2019, they tried again.

However, with the arrival of Joe Biden, hopes were renewed, because during the campaign the current president spoke out for his reappointment. However, months and then years passed without concrete action in this regard until a presidential order from Biden arrived in July 2021. Since? radio silence again. On the eve of the midterm elections, with the long and absorbing process of primaries and campaigning in the US, we could almost guess that the current administration would not do anything about it.

However, it seems that this will not be the case and as we can read on Engadget, The FCC has resumed actions to restore net neutrality. In this publication, we can read that the current president of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, who is in favor of restoring net neutrality, announced today that «This afternoon, I will share with my colleagues an ordinance that proposes to restore net neutrality […] We will need to develop an updated registry to identify the best way to restore these policies and have a single national open internet standard«.

The move comes just one day after Anna Gómez was sworn in as the third Democratic member of the five-member FCC panel. Recall that when net neutrality was repealed, it was by a vote of three members of the Republican Party who were part of said panel. That is why most of those who are in favor of its restoration are already so we can expect the work in this regard to progress at a good pace., although it is true that they will in all probability have to face many obstacles of various kinds. Let’s hope for the sake of the internet that they can sort them out and Ajit Pai’s infamous legacy will cease to be a hindrance to the internet.