On Wednesday, Netflix, Digg, Reddit, Tumblr and many others took part in an online protest reminiscent of the 2011 anti-SOPA action to protest against the Federal Communications Commission's planned new Open Internet policy and the "fast lanes" proposal associated with it. Meanwhile, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler hinted this week at expanding Net Neutrality-type protections to wireless broadband.

The protest, organized by "Battle for the Net" and its sponsors like Fight for the Future and Free Press, mimicked the 2011 online action that got lawmakers' attentions and largely helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, which many Internet companies at the time said would destroy the framework of the Internet as we knew it.

We had previously wondered if a SOPA-type action would occur against the new FCC Open Internet proposal, which allows for "paid preference" deals between Internet service providers (ISPs) and online companies as long as they're not "commercially unreasonable." The move has been controversial with Net Neutrality advocates, who have been saying the new policy would neither support an Open or neutral Internet.