1: No informed citizen in their right mind wants this to pass
2: Big telecoms are making a lot of spam to force democracy to their whim
3: People become aware of this and its talked about in news, "Well I heard the count was neck in neck, 'Oh well I heard that Comcast paid spammers'", deepening public hate of Comcast-esque companies
4: Comcast et al will get their way as usual and next week no one will care
VCs are way more interested in investing in 10 companies that might give them a 100x return than meddling in politics.
Historically, regressive ideologies have funded think tanks at an order of magnitude higher than progressives. Good luck fighting old money dollar for dollar.
It will all implode eventually. And as the tech world likes to recycle things, we'll see some form of the late BBS early internet years again. Then it will all start over.
At least that's my hope. Just kind of clean house and start over.
If a bunch of techies did this, I could be a part of it, and I wouldn't mind that 90% of the general population didn't follow suit immediately and were stuck with Comcast throttle. "Save yourself before saving the passenger next to you when the plane is going down"
2: Big telecoms are making a lot of spam to force democracy to their whim
3: People become aware of this and its talked about in news, "Well I heard the count was neck in neck, 'Oh well I heard that Comcast paid spammers'", deepening public hate of Comcast-esque companies
4: Comcast et al will get their way as usual and next week no one will care