Why has FFC authority to regulate net neutrality become a lefty issue?  Below is a quote from a letter to the FCC reproduced in The Leadership Conference and signed by a coalition of national civil rights, privacy, and consumer organizations.

Increased internet use and broadband capacity has allowed private companies to collect vast amounts of data on users – information that is being used to create detailed profiles of their movements, interests and activities online.  This harms consumers by invading their privacy and curbs innovation and adoption of new technologies by making consumers hesitant to use them. In order to address consumer fears, the Plan calls on Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, and the FCC to improve the relationship between users and the entities that create these online profiles.  In order for the FCC to meet its obligations, it requires the legal authority to enact privacy protections for broadband service under Section 222.  Without that authority the Commission will be unable to quell invasive practices like deep packet inspection.  If such routine privacy invasions are permitted to take place, the value of Internet communications will decrease as a social good, contrary to the mission of the FCC and our national interest. 

I guess privacy regulation is a left wing issue because the right wing is paranoid about that big government will go too far in imposing constraints on corporate invasion of privacy, but is the right wing OK with what big corporations will do in the absence of constraints? 

The concern about “[harming] innovation and adoption of new technologies by making consumers hesitant to use them” is right on the money – whether the consumer is right, left or center.