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rpgamer28 · 3852 days ago · link · · parent · post: Huge coalition led by Amazon, Microsoft, and others take a stand against FCC on net neutrality.
Privacy is a different matter than network neutrality. Destroying privacy is the business model of most of these companies. They operate a service nominally for free, but you pay with your personal information which is sold to advertisers. In contrast most of these companies gain nothing from not having network neutrality, and some (Netflix especially) stand to lose a lot by losing it. It would make every major internet company have to pay kickbacks to ISPs or risk having a disadvantage in reaching their customers. There's a good business case against it from all of their perspectives I think, entirely apart from the political ideals held by people on the internet.