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Tumblr Led the Net-Neutrality Fight—Then Verizon Bought It.
Not Neutrality
Tumblr led tech companies to stop telecoms like Verizon from making the web slower for poorer users. Verizon then bought it, and internal pushback quelled its advocacy.
Taylor Lorenz
Published
Nov. 29 2017
5:00AM EST
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