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 announcement from the Internet Association made clear that companies like Google, Facebook and Netflix would back a legal fight.

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

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.

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.

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.

It’s only been a week since the Federal Communications Commission repealed Net Neutrality rules and Republican lawmakers are already trying to set legislation into motion to cement the FCC’s ruling.

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.

Now that the Federal Communications Commission has jettisoned its rules banning internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against lawful content, the issue is heading for Congress. And if the activists who first brought the issue into the limelight have a say, it will become an issue in the 2018 election campaign.

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