[thankthunk]

> I feel like the decline of traditional television is behind a lot of the push to destroy net neutrality.

It's the decline of TV, news and traditional media in general. Look at what the news industry has been able to do against social media/tech companies. Brow beat them into serving as spammers for their own news content so that news companies can make more money. The same thing is happening with TV. Youtube is now spamming traditional tv content at the expense of regular youtube content. I used to get variety of recommendations from programming to sports to "trending comedy". Now I get recommendations for things I've never watched on youtube - John Oliver, Late Night Shows, Saturday Night Live, CNN, etc.

They couldn't compete in the new internet/social media environment, so traditional media is forcing the environment to change for them. It's been working for them in the short term, but will it work in the long term? I hope not, but who knows.

The changes have been incremental, but people truly don't understand how much google search, youtube, reddit, facebook, etc has changed in the last 4 years.

The internet/social media has gone from local/non-traditional media content to predominantly corporate content. And it's a trend that's going to accelerate as tech/social media is pushed to favor corporate content over ordinary user content.