Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net...
by rayiner on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @07:43PM
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> Despite all their lobbying money there is luckily still some democracy remaining in our government.
Yes, because nobody in the triple-digit billions revenue web tech industry lobbied for net neutrality.
Whether you think neutrality is a good idea or not, you can't ignore the conflict at play here. There's a lot of money distributing bits over wires to consumers. The net neutrality and copyright debates boil down to a fight between companies that make the bits, the ones that aggregate and distribute the bits, and the ones that build the wires about who gets how much of that money.
Yes, because nobody in the triple-digit billions revenue web tech industry lobbied for net neutrality.
Whether you think neutrality is a good idea or not, you can't ignore the conflict at play here. There's a lot of money distributing bits over wires to consumers. The net neutrality and copyright debates boil down to a fight between companies that make the bits, the ones that aggregate and distribute the bits, and the ones that build the wires about who gets how much of that money.