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A trade group representing more than 40 of the country’s biggest tech companies announced plans to intervene in a lawsuit against the FCC over its 2017 order dismantling Net Neutrality protections.

The effort to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s recent repeal of its Net Neutrality rules just crossed an important threshold.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, sponsorship for Sen. Ed Markey’s resolution of disapproval of last month’s Net Neutrality repeal reached 30 senators.

An epic power struggle over the future of the internet will play out in the United States this year. Its outcome will determine just how much control broadband companies like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T have.

The repeal is undergoing final changes as the FCC prepares for a court battle.

Big Tech makes aspects of daily life more convenient (if more fraught), but that’s not the same as making the world a better place. Mainly, the goal has become making more money, via more monopoly.

Net Neutrality proponents, including lawmakers like Sen. Ed Markey and advocacy groups like Free Press Action Fund, have criticized Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s bill for failing to ban paid fast lanes.

It’s only been a week since the Federal Communications Commission repealed Net Neutrality rules and Republican lawmakers are already trying to set legislation into motion to cement the FCC’s ruling.

Quartz polled more than 20 academics, broadband companies, industry analysts and nonprofits to get their predictions for what the future will bring.

Republicans have introduced a so-called Net Neutrality bill that critics say will only reinforce fears of “fast lanes” and “slow lanes” in light of the Federal Communication Commission‘s vote to repeal the Obama-era rules.