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by throwayyy479087 1207 days ago
Ding ding ding. The largest beneficiary of Net Neutrality would have been Netflix. That's where all the activism came from.

Same with Russia paying for anti-fracking activism in the Aughts: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/596304-invest...

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Quite the relevant article you have there.

Fracking is bad for the environment. Balancing 'the United States and Earth will not become inhabitable to humans within 500 years' with 'our oil companies want cheaper product and less overhead' is a pretty big challenge, but it's safe to say that Russia is more interested in short-term gains than the US is (and is a large part in why the US is pushing EV adoption).