Professor Barbara van Schewick weighs in on the reasons that large corporations may be hesitant to speak out on net neutrality for The Seattle Times.

High-speed Internet is seen no longer as a luxury but as the staff of commercial and personal life.

Net neutrality won the day in Washington, D.C., and that wasn’t supposed to happen. Republicans indignantly opposed regulating Internet service, currently dominated by a few cable giants. Texas Republican Ted Cruz called it “Obamacare for the Internet” (in his world, fightin’ words).

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As for the politics, Barbara van Schewick, an Internet expert at Stanford Law School, offers a wildly different analysis of why Google and the others didn’t rush into the fray. She told Wired they “risked drawing the ire of the Republicans in Congress who might retaliate in various ways.”