# Professor Nicholas Economides argues that eliminating net neutrality will negatively impact consumers and startups

1 Faculty News November 29, 2017 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](https://qz.com/1139278/net-neutrality-the-economic-case-against-a-free-internet/) -- "He believes that payments from content companies to internet providers would end up in the pockets of the internet provider’s stockholders, and not be passed on consumers. 'Right now we don’t see companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon coming to AT&T begging for prioritization,' [Economides](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides) told Quartz. He said that instead, we see AT&T coming out and saying we want a new revenue stream."

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