The current administration:
- rescinded net neutrality, which helped FAANG companies.
- threatened to break up Big Tech.
- has anti-China policies, which reduces Big Tech's customer base.
The new administration may be reversing all of the above.
- rescinded net neutrality, which helped FAANG companies.
- threatened to break up Big Tech.
- has anti-China policies, which reduces Big Tech's customer base.
The new administration may be reversing all of the above.
Carve outs were made in various countries with Net Neutrality.
> Under Obama's FCC the practice was under investigation.
Which just goes to show that the practice isn't explicitly banned and may exist even with Net Neutrality regulation.
Sure ISP’s could be the bad guy here too, though.
It would have encouraged a new Twitter to rise earlier than now. So yes it has an impact on the current deplatforming. The solution to private companies deplatforming is competition, at whatever level it takes. Without NN protections in place it is much harder to build out that competition at any level.
Biden has already said he will not reverse the China policy - quite the contrary, unlike Trump who only resorted to bullying tactics (aka trade/tariff war), Biden intends to work out a China policy with allied countries (i.e. NATO / European Union) that will aim at changing the abusive practices China is doing, per https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/biden-interview-m... .