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Basically on July 17th, a bunch of tech firms and other pro NN groups are gonna stage a massive protest along the likes of the protests against SOPA/PIPA from way back when. It's scheduled to happen on July 12th, and the plans have already gotten news coverage.
Official website for the protests which includes the full list of participating organizations
what are you guys' thoughts?
Knowing how destructive the Net Neutrality rollback will be for these websites and companies, it makes sense. Should this pass, this is going to heavily reduce traffic to their sites and end up losing them a lot of money, if my understanding is correct (being me, I'm probably getting this wrong).
If net neutrality isn't implemented companies may essentially bribe corporations to slow down their competitors. This would not only stagnate the market, as big companies neuter small companies before they can even get off the ground, but also create a new battlefield for big companies, where they have to beg companies to not neuter them, while bribing them to neuter others.
Big companies, small companies, consumers, investors… everyone has a reason to want net neutrality. I don't know who the politicians are aiming for with this, other than maybe small government lovers.
Let's hope this gets somewhere.
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