Except the whole sopa debacle happened under the Obama administration and TechCrunch supported net-neutrality back then too.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/over-40-internet-companies...

Really it'd be hypocritical for them to support something they never previously supported just because of the president. The tech industry has been in favor of net neutrality for as long as it's been an issue i.e. far longer than the trump administration has been around.

A lot of people that voted for Obama, including me, were very disappointed that Wheeler headed the FCC and voiced the anger of essentially a lobbyist taking the reins.

We fought to inform people and comment to the FCC.

Then something amazing happened: Wheeler actually listened.

> A lot of people that voted for Obama, including me, were very disappointed that Wheeler headed the FCC and voiced the anger of essentially a lobbyist taking the reins.

Those people did not do a very good job researching Wheeler. His two telecom lobbying positions (head of main cable trade group, and then later head of main wireless trade group) were far in the past (over 30 years for cable), and were at times when those industries were the disruptive outsiders taking on the big entrenched near-monopolies to provide an alternative for consumers. Working for those industries at the time was being pro-consumer.

If you were really being fair, you would have posted flaws in their analysis that implied the bias.

Early in the Obama administration, when he hadn't taken much of a position on NN and nominated (then-)suspected ISP opponent Wheeler to chair the FCC, I think you'd be right. But folks are informed enough on this issue now that even if the Democrats turned on NN, their base would oppose that stance.

But the Obama administration was doing something very different, how are your imaginings here relevant?

I haven't followed this stuff until recently. What exactly was the Obama administration doing?

The FCC under Obama reclassified the Internet as a title 2 common carrier, allowing the FCC to regulate ISPs as the infrastructure they are.

Trump appointed an old Verizon veteran who was already in the FCC when he took office with the pretty blatant instruction to reverse that decision and go further by fully authorizing ISPs to do paid prioritization of service.

That kills the Internet as it is, since if there is no competition ISPs will extort whomever they want and can, and anyone but the largest players (Facebook et al) won't have the money to pay them off to get access to users.