On today's a-gender: Axing net neutrality will harm America's women, say women senators

Don't see how that letter helps

While it may be entirely true that women disproportionally benefitted indirectly from Net Neutrality, I'm not sure that this is a good avenue to take. We already know that Republicans couldn't give a flying rats ass about women, so if they were hoping that this letter would accomplish anything, they wasted their time.

They should stick to the general case, which is that removing Net Neutrality will decimate small internet businesses, who don't have the capital to pay the inevitable bribe money that ISPs will demand to make sure their data isn't throttled badly.

That's a nice business you have there. Would be a shame if people couldn't get to it, know what I mean?

The letter claims that the number of women-owned firms grew five times as fast as the total during the period between 2007 and 2016. For most of that period there no net neutrality order was effective, and in particular, providers were allowed to provide enhanced service at a higher rate. There is, therefore, very weak evidence at best that reclassification as a Title II service and the subsequent net neutrality order adopted in February 2015 had anything to do with it. Etsy, mentioned in the same paragraph, seems to have fallen on rather hard times and not grown my much in the last couple of years, but its earlier growth can hardly be credited to net neutrality requirements.

In general, it seems likely that very new businesses using or based on internet services will have less trouble paying for any necessary service enhancements than in getting noticed among a few hundred million others, some of which may already be large and well established.

Etsy?

Etsy are surely a bad example as they probably have the size to get around this.

Press releases daily

I expect every day will bring exciting news:

Axing Net Neutrality will harm Latinos, say Democrat Latinos

Axing Net Neutrality will harm African Americans, say Democrat African Americans

Axing Net Neutrality will harm transgender bicyclists, say Democrat transgender bicyclists

I hope The Register doesn't miss any.

No problem

Just keep up the fight for gender neutral, or flex gender, or whatever the cr@p it is being called these days. Women just need to identify as Male, Other, Turtle, Spork, etc. and the concern goes away.

Pai is like the Honey Badger - he don't give a sh*t.

this used to be a joke and a warning to journo students

there was what was once a joke headline, that served as a warning to students in journalism classes:

"World Comes To End: Women And Children Hardest Hit"

now that's standard MO for media. Think of the Children or Think of the Women to get emotional responses and play "divide and conquer".

Also, follow the money. any pols for or against NN have an expensive constituency that donates to convince their side. One side wants more money for their pipe, the other wants to maintain obscene profits using someone else's pipe.

One wants toll roads on all roads, the other wants to freely move big rigs full of stuff 24/7 down residential streets.