If you've been on the Internet in the past few weeks, you've probably heard of the anti-net neutrality riders that pro-ISP legislators added to a congressional budget deal. Well, good news: according to Multichannel, those riders were dropped from a compromise bill that congress put together late Tuesday night.

The riders, if passed, would have dealt a serious blow to net neutrality. One rider would have defunded the implementation of the FCC's latest net neutrality regulations (the FCC is busy reclassifying the ISPs under Title II common carrier regulations). The other rider would have clarified that reclassification was not about imposing rate regulations (something FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has said, but that the ISPs do not believe).

The defeat of the riders is a nice victory for net neutrality advocates, if a bit of an expected one. President Obama is a fairly consistent ally of neutrality, and he had previously threatened to veto the bill if it contained the riders in question. Multichannel speculates that even the cable companies didn't expect their additions to make it into law. In the end, this goes down as just another ideological skirmish on the net neutrality issue.