Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released the broad strokes of his plan to abandon consumer protections to the benefit of large corporate players in the telecommunications industry.
While major telecom companies are looking forward to Pai’s FCC makeover, the same can’t be said for everyone else in tech. After Pai’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent Pai a business-minded denouncement of his plans to strip away the rules that shape net neutrality.
For tech companies that aren’t telecom behemoths, the crux of the argument is this:
“… the success of America’s startup ecosystem depends on more than improved broadband speeds. We also depend on an…