- Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Amazon have joined the net neutrality movement in supporting the preservation of net neutrality.
- Activists and corporations have been forced to unite against the proposed abandonment of net neutrality.
- The situation is comparable to Lex Luthor asking Superman for help in dealing with a disruptive neighbor.

Activists and corporations are teaming up to fight for open internet while the FCC is trying to create two speeds of service.

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It's not just anti-corporate hippies who think that abandoning net neutrality is a bad idea.

The net neutrality movement is leery of big corporate players, but in this debate, it's on the same side as some of them.

Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, all signed onto this letter, supporting net neutrality.

What's being proposed is so egregious, activists and corporations have been forced onto the same side.

That's basically Lex Luthor knocking on Superman's apartment door, and going, listen, I know we have our differences, but we have got to get rid of that asshole in apartment 3B.


Speaker 0: It's not just anti-corporate hippies who think that abandoning net neutrality is a bad idea. The net neutrality movement is leery of big corporate players, but in this debate, it's on the same side as some of them. Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, all signed onto this letter, supporting net neutrality. What's being proposed is so egregious, activists and corporations have been forced onto the same side. That's basically Lex Luthor knocking on Superman's apartment door, and going, listen, I know we have our differences, but we have got to get rid of that asshole in apartment 3B.

He's too loud, Supe. He's just too loud.

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