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I was under the impression that the 2015 net neutrality policies more or less had bipartisan support. What changed in the interim?
by jamesgeck0 9y ago
I was under the impression that the 2015 net neutrality policies more or less had bipartisan support. What changed in the interim?
- nerfhammer 9y agoRepublicans realized that internet giants are now in charge of determining what is true or false in the world but are run by a bunch of teenagers that are probably liberal hippies and cable companies are run by reliable Republican megadonors so lets give cable companies the ability to extort rents from those internet companies and hobble them to eliminate that threat.
- masonic 9y agoreliable Republican megadonors All of the telecommunications giants contributed more to Democrats than Republicans in the 2016 election cycle.
- e40 9y agoThere is no doubt both parties are influenced by the money given to them, but maybe Democrats got more money because they needed to be moved farther from their natural position (toward that which the telecoms wanted).