New hope for net neutrality? US Senate, websites push to overturn FCC’s repeal

Protesters fighting to save net neutrality rally outside the Verizon store on Market Street in San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Verizon stores across the country were sites for coordinated protests one week before the FCC votes on the net neutrality issue. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

On May 9, some prominent websites began using big, red signs to urge people to once again make noise about net neutrality. 

Why now? Senators, most of them Democrats, are pushing for a vote to overturn the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules.