Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality
I'm surprised that only one person here has mentioned campaign finance as the true issue here -- and they were downvoted.As horsecaptin noted on this thread, "No one is going to lose an election for not supporting net-neutrality."They do stand to lose serious campaign funding, however. Congressmen and Senators spend a majority of their time raising funds for their campaigns. If it weren't so important to them, they wouldn't. House representatives -- incumbents, no less -- need to raise about $20,000 a week to hold onto their positions, and Senators about $10,000.In 2014, the top four cable providers spent twice as much on campaign "donations" than the top five pharmaceutical companies. I'm not sure about 2016 but imagine it was similar.--- Some linksHow Much Money Big Cable Gave the Politicians Who Oversee the Internet [2014]http://gizmodo.com/how-much-money-big-cable-gave-the-politic...House Rep. Pushing To Set Back Online Privacy Rakes In Industry Fundshttp://www.vocativ.com/415350/house-rep-pushing-to-set-back-...The Campaign Cash That Can Kill the Open Internet [2015]
All but two of the 31 co-sponsors of a House bill to kill net neutrality received thousands from telecoms in just the last election.http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-campaign-cash-that-can-kill...Half of Anti-Net Neutrality Comments From "Shadowy" Koch Bros. Grouphttp://gizmodo.com/half-of-anti-net-neutrality-comments-came...Koch-affiliated astroturfers call Net Neutrality "Marxist" [2014]http://boingboing.net/2014/08/26/koch-affiliated-astroturfer...Vote correlation: Internet privacy resolution and telecom contributionshttps://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/vote-correlation-in...The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy themhttps://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp...Internet Firms Are Far Behind Cable Companies in Political Donationshttps://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/upshot/internet-firms-are... [2014]The Humiliating Fundraising Existence of a Member of Congress [2014]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-hum...Are members of Congress becoming telemarketers?http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-are-members-of-congre...How much time do politicians spend fundraising?https://www.quora.com/How-much-time-do-politicians-spend-fun...