PhotoNet neutrality — the concept that no online content should receive preferential treatment — has long been viewed as something of an equalizer between telecom companies and internet companies. So when Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said last week that he planned to loosen the rules governing net neutrality, the reaction was predictable. The biggest internet companies won’t necessarily be hurt by any dismantling of net neutrality, he writes. Instead, doing away with net neutrality will only help cement the power of internet behemoths like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google. “The giants seem likely to keep getting bigger,” Farhad writes.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2017 17:26 UTC