Critics predicted high prices or new internet “fast lanes” for the affluent. “The repeal of these protections has corporate greed and corruption written all over it,” Elizabeth Warren said on the Senate floor. Meantime, socially conscious companies saw a marketing ploy. Burger King told a whopper with a web video that showed customers forced to wait for their food because they didn’t pay for faster MBPS—“making burgers per second.”

Killing net neutrality was also said to be an affront to America’s system of government. “This is an egregious attack on our democracy,” Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted. The ACLU, Reporters Without Borders and other groups decried it as a threat to free speech, saying it would give cable and telecom companies “unfettered power” and have “a chilling effect on our rights.” Interfaith religious leaders wrote in an open letter that “communication is one of God’s great gifts to humanity,” and “we can either adopt policies that promote communications rights or that lessen them.”

Naral Pro-Choice America proclaimed in a press release: “There is no Reproductive Freedom Without Net Neutrality.” Planned Parenthood tweeted an article arguing in its headline: “The FCC’s Net Neutrality Decision Is A Stealth Attack On Feminism.” Is that what they mean by “intersectionality”?