Internet users took a hard loss this week in the fight for broadband privacy and internet freedom — but if you listen to the Republican lawmakers who trashed our privacy rights, you’d think they’d done the opposite.

Last week the Business Roundtable, a collection of millionaire CEOs who work to influence policy in their own self-interest, sent a letter urging the White House to dismantle important consumer protections that are inconvenient to their business ventures.

Tech companies like Facebook and Google pride themselves on being innovative, but when it comes to hiring practices, these same companies follow a very old playbook: very male, and very White.

Pai took a page out of Trump’s playbook and issued his own version of executive orders to undercut affordable broadband, greenlight more media consolidation and endanger key protections for internet users.