Snap is worried that losing net neutrality could ‘seriously harm’ its business

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Snap, Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, filed its IPO paperwork yesterday, and there’s lots of information about the company and its business contained inside. We’ve already learned a larger rollout of Spectacles is coming, and the company prioritizes iOS development, for example.

The company is also required to list the various risks and threats it might face as it attempts to grow, and while some of them seem obvious — the company points out that it doesn’t control the iOS and Android operating systems the Snapchat app runs on, for example — there’s also a pointed callout of potential net neutrality changes. Here’s the line from the filing, with my emphasis added:

Current Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, “open internet…

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