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The purporse of anti-net neutrality advocates is basically to make the web less free so their clients (large telcoms) can capture more profits. I think big mon
by unclesaamm 9y ago
The purporse of anti-net neutrality advocates is basically to make the web less free so their clients (large telcoms) can capture more profits.
I think big money realized fairly late in the game that the Internet's decentralized structure makes it difficult to perform rent-seeking, so any legislation that tends to centralize the Internet is viewed as a pro by these people.
In other words, it's the same effect you see in every other field -- special interest lobbyists for large corporations want to rewrite the rules to suit them, at the expense of ordinary people's privacy and a democratic Internet