What a Donald Trump presidency would mean for Hollywood

When Donald Trump got himself out of the entertainment business to run for president, the transition had a few bumpy moments. But if Trump ended some of his industry relationships on bad terms, his responses to a questionnaire sent to the candidates about arts and cultural policy suggest that he and Hollywood share at least one significant priority.

On network neutrality, an issue on which cable companies and content companies such as Netflix are split, Trump, like many of the other former Republican hopefuls, sides with the cable providers. Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers should have to treat all the content traveling over their networks the same, rather than charging content providers for faster delivery. It’s a significant priority for companies like Netflix, which worry about the prospect of having to pay up to keep subscribers’ videos streaming smoothly, and a challenge for Internet service providers, which want to make the companies that place the heaviest strain on their networks pay up. Trump’s position on net neutrality? “If one believes in the free market system, then it is hard to imagine how the [Federal Communications Commission] is helping things with rules associated with net neutrality.”