Agreed...but net neutrality's only goal was to protected data, nothing in it protected people. Terms of service was and is up to the company and the individual, and the agreements are so confusing and complex most don't read them. With "surveillance capitalism" now the norm being combined with facial recognition and geolocation at the app level... big brother is here.
All of the tech is cool and even usefulI but in the hands of government it is dangerous to disagree. Google and Apple are helping China control dissent and with what we are learning about the US government its not much of a stretch to see where this is heading.
ATT net worth $127 Billion
Amazon net worth $300 Billion (but project to be worlds first Trillion $ company)
Alphabet net worth $500 Billion
I wonder how much of his own money Eric Schmidt used to seed In-Q-Tel with? So called "private companies" are way too close to "government" and all three of these are as close as it gets.
With government corruption being exposed at an almost unbelievable pace at the same time so called leaders are seemingly unwilling to punish the offenders, we are in a legal crisis. Do we have a two tier justice system? Maybe...
Enter Alphabet and Amazon being deeply involved in intel agencies worldwide and its hard to imagine anything could gone wrong.
Is it possible some companies are too big to fail / too big to jail? Maybe...
In the past ATT has been under the microscope, it could be that's why they don't take public positions and try to operate low key.
Alphabet and Amazon use to be low key but that changed and evolved to being outspoken during the Obama Admin... they're no-longer shy about advocating their political beliefs, or shy about placing large positions in financial markets, nor afraid to censor your comments and kick you off their service if you say something they don't like.