petemitchell-33

One of the most frustrating things about the fight for net neutrality is that I've seen several activists use the fact that greed and money is the only reason these freedoms are being taken away from us.

While this is 100% true, the frustrating part is that using that argument only makes the wealthy opponents to net neutrality even more aggressive in their fight against it. This is because in their (very uninformed) minds, we're telling them that they'll lose money if we keep our freedoms in place. It's like we're handing that argument to them on a platter.

How can we strip the money/greed argument out of the conversation so we can talk to them on a level playing field? Or, do you know of a way to use their greed against them and offer ways that they'd actually profit from net neutrality?

Thank you and I agree 100%, but I still don't know how we can expect to get that engrained in their heads without providing actual examples of how they will personally profit, instead of just complaining about how rich and greedy they are. It might be impossible, but it might also be the only way. As you know, money talks.

Keep in mind, they might also see technological innovation as a threat to the industries they're trying to protect.

I'm not asking you to come up with those examples right now, but just suggesting that we should try to play to their narrow mindedness and give them what they want = projected profits. If, that is, we can come up with something more profitable than whatever the big ISPs are whispering in their ears.