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Senator Wyden,

I'm sitting in a cafe in Oregon at this moment, using wifi to look for a job and follow this IAMA. Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions.

How does Net Neutrality fit in with the general scope of where you see the internet going in the next 10 years, and how internet usage relates to our future as a democracy?

You've been active in opposing bulk data collection recently, and obviously there's a lot of discussion on Reddit about the policies of the NSA and the government generally, as well as the policies of foreign governments who transparently interfere with the internet traffic in their countries.

What's your vision for the role of government vis-a-vis the internet?

What do you think the government can do about that problem? What do you think the government should do about that problem?

I'm not sure I agree with his stance that the only advocate/beneficiary to NN are big companies like MS and Google, but here's basics of it:

Google/MS both have two streams of interest in NN. One is that they make ad revenue off traffic and guidance of their web portals. If there's less traffic and need for guidance, their revenues suffer.

Two is that both of them offer cloud services and massive content providing (especially services like youtube). If they suddenly need to pay surcharges to get fast service to their users, their internet business models will need to change.

ISPs want to charge for youtube/netflix/office online, etc. because they are soaking up bandwidth and it would be better for business if they didn't. ISPs don't want to expand infrastructure to serve all these things for free.