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if this ruling stands and I'm even if it goes the Supreme Court the Supreme Court
probably roll the same way because basically what the ruling is sane
what the court what the DC district court said is that what the FCC said
back in 2008 let me set this up
in 1996 the Telecommunications Act which itself I have some serious problems with
but any a bill clinton side this thing into law and as
with so many things particularly from that era when
republicans were running the house in and I think new ways
around in ninety-six I'm pretty sure excuse me up
I've got gonna ragged throat this morning army
arm that the Telecommunications Act 96
defined to kinds of
things relative to the internet there are those group that
deliver the Internet to the people who deliver the Internet to you
the Razzies giant backbone providers and then there are the people who actually
deliver the Internet to you
which in most cases like your local cable company
your telephone company well in fact it is. there are
still a few independent ISP's a
floating around but most have them run their stuff over
I your cable or over your telephone and they do so in states where
that stole you require that they that they have to be able to
but increasingly those
a those options have been pushed out so now you got
basically Comcast owns most to the internet business in the United so the
largest portion internet business United States
not I'm national sure if its most but if it's more than half but
it's that they're the largest in an AT&T i think is number two in the it got
basically got three companies a control
well over half and probably I haven't
have an option to parse the numbers but my my guess would be
at least five companies control probably seventy five or eighty percent of all
you know traffic in the United States at
the consumer point where you get
and what they wanna do is they want to move
from a net neutrality model which is where you get the internet and you
decide what you wanna see and you pay one price per month
for your usage of the Internet and that price can go up if you use a lot of the
internet but it doesn't matter what part at the internet use
K so it's sorta like by a water from the water company
you have a basic price for a certain amount
for you know they the first first hundred thousand gallons that you
the year or whatever you know thousand gallons that you use in a month you pay
eight bucks a month for are 80 bucks a month I have no idea what
water cause these days and and a
its on are too high I have to pump it myself
and and then a
yeah if you wanna buy more what you pay extra for a case that's how the internet
works right now the United States
the way works have cable TV is very different you can watch cable TV
all day long or you can watch it
once a month and you pay the same basic
cable fee if you wanna see
more stations if you wanna see MSNBC for example
at least with the provider that we have it's an extra five dollars a month you
gotta go to a different plan
that gives you MSNBC in three or four other
networks as well if you wanna see HBO you gotta buy
another plan which includes HBO you on Showtime you gotta get a different plan
that includes any pay more for all these things
whether you use them or not and
bats the key to the insane profitability
%uh this kind of a system is something called breakage
the concept a breakage is the key to really high profits systems and business
if you can get people to pay for things that they don't use
then you make a small fortune and I can tell you if
back you know from the days when when the
the Nigel peacock and I used to run the the end and soon other cat
way we ran the the international trade for my copy sir
in copy serve charge seven dollars a month extra
for access to that form it was a trading ban young people were in there literally
making millions of dollars buying and trading area and people coming in eight
or
offer ship loads up shrimp or
you know 300 tons of steel and they were actually doing the deals
on the internet this is back this is in the eighties this is one copy serve was
the Internet
to be weighed seven dollars a month to sign up for and they just got their
credit card got dinged every month for ever
and this was a Wells business model onto just in your credit card for ever
and people would go and they would
check it out for a month or two and then they get bored go and then forget their
pain the seven dollars
and at one point toward the end the
copy serve probably seventy eighty percent other people
who were pain that seven dollars for access to the tree form never ever went
into it
so and that was a lotta money for copy sir
its presumably hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars I don't know the
exact amount but I do know
that the usage went down and the billing was continuing
and so that's called breakage
so if these ISP's now can come to you and say all you want to access to
the dot de like the dot .*** domains
*** you want access to these big news sites
New York Times Washington Post
you know whatever may be are you want access to
you know here's our basic plan our basic plan gives you
the New York Times The Washington Post and a
and Seton motley is site but the the big plan you know and like that he
understands saint
they want to turn the internet into like cable TV
and because the FCC ruled back in 2000
that I S p's word content delivery
mechanisms much like the company that brings cable into your home
rather than common carriers like phone companies
to the phone company can charge more based on who you're talking to
they can say if I call Shane they're gonna charge me a dollar
if I call Danielle going to charge me 50 cent began to build
is there what's called a common carrier so if the FCC were to redefine
Internet Service Providers as common carriers and undo their own 2000
decision
in all this can be fixed go to free press
dotnet and you can sign a petition to do for people
you're listening to the Thom Hartmann program
call 866 987 Thol
we need to go back to net neutrality net neutrality is to be called the first
amendment at the
at the internet site everybody has free speech