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Only 3 Republican senators need to support it, and there's a ton of them that don't care so much for Trump.

If enough industry people are on the side of it and/or there no populist fight over it, Trump would have no reason to veto it.

I don't think Trump really cares that much about these things, it'll only be a thing if it turns into a pop-culture war in which he may choose sides.

But if MS and a bunch of other heavyweights are in favour of it, he just might even go for it.

It's possible. But more likely in a few years.



> I don't think Trump really cares that much about these things, it'll only be a thing if it turns into a pop-culture war in which he may choose sides.

> But if MS and a bunch of other heavyweights are in favour of it, he just might even go for it.

I remember the first time I heard about Net Neutrality as an issue, in what, 2011 or something? I couldn't have imagined it becoming politicized at all. Plus, Wikipedia, Google, basically any tech company who isn't an ISP should clearly be on the same side. And yet, it became a political issue. People who couldn't explain the first thing about what Net Neutrality is, have opinions about it. Trump's administration is against it.

Maybe it'll be different for Facial Recognition, since people can better intuit about it, but honestly, that probably just makes it easier to fear-monger about, rightly or wrongly.


Net Neutrality will definitely become politicized because it's a war between layers of the value chain: carriers vs. Google.

Carriers are enormously powerful and influential so there will be a war.

If it's MS vs. Amazon ... well it's not one industry vs. the other.

But I agree it could turn into a pop culture war.




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