Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Netflix have ignored the chance to testify in front of congress on the future of net neutrality, despite their protests of the Trump administration’s proposed reversal of existing Internet rules.
“Not a single one of those companies told the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is convening the hearing, that they would dispatch their leaders to Washington, D.C., in the coming weeks, even at a time when the Trump administration is preparing to kill the open internet rules currently on the government’s books,” reported Recode on Monday.
“The panel initially asked those four tech giants, as well as AT&T, Charter, Comcast* and Verizon, to indicate their plans for the hearing by July 31,” the report states. “For now, though, the committee told Recode on Monday it isn’t giving up and would extend its deadline, as it continues its quest to engage the country’s tech and telecom business leaders on net neutrality.”
Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook have all previously protested the Trump Administration’s plan to reverse President Obama’s net neutrality policy.
In May, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings confessed at Recode Code Conference that net neutrality is “not narrowly important to us because we’re big enough to get the deals we want.”
Just over two weeks later, Netflix flip-flopped on their statement, claiming they will “never outgrow the fight.”
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