O.K., we should get into tech news this week! Let’s start with the obvious: net neutrality. On Thursday, the F.C.C. chairman, Ajit Pai, rolled back a set of rules that guaranteed an open internet for Americans, a sweeping move that basically the entire internet is mad about. Before the vote, researchers found that millions of the comments supporting the move on the F.C.C.’s website were actually fake bots. That did little to stop the agency from moving forward.

Pai’s stance is to say it’s pro-competition to unravel regulations. Pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley says that that’s bogus and that consumers will lose, while big corporations like Comcast will have free rein to jack up prices for different types of internet services. I fall in the latter camp.

Farhad: Well, you’re right that everyone in Silicon Valley is against this repeal, but I think it’s interesting to note the shift in intensity. In the past, the tech giants, especially Google, took a much more forceful approach to defend such regulations.

As I’ve argued, net neutrality is now not very important to the giants. In fact, because it protects start-ups from large companies, the biggest tech companies might be better off under the new neutrality-free rules. And as it turns out, the biggest tech companies have taken a back seat in the fight, as you and several of our colleagues reported this week.

Mike: Well, yeah. As an aside, Pai really seems to want to be liked by people, going as far as to create a parody video with a supportive publication. I don’t think it’s working.