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on the Sunday programs a couple really interesting things happened the first
was that Michael Paul
was on idly was meet the press David Gregory
Michael Powell's the Sun
love Colin Powell the former secretary a statement former
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have an icon
you know then and and in fact bill clinton
when colin powell was on the by the Joint Chiefs of Staff our bill clinton
put his son
Michael on the FCC Board of Governors air conditioners
and then George W Bush when it came out of his elevated him to be chairman
Michael Powell has always been an advocate
above doing away with net neutrality in other words allowing in
the company that brings internet service into your house
is called ISP's our internet service providers the ones that you get your
internet from the box in your house worry it what you look your computer up
to
letting down meh look at the data that's coming through
into your house and charge you or speed up or slow down based on that data
so I can say okay if you pass say you know an extra five dollars a month and
we will let you see the
you know all the news sites the New York Times The Washington Post you know it
whatever
but if you don't pay us that we're gonna slow the site's down
or if you want to use Google it's gonna cost you a little extra
or two i watch netflix which accounts for are
almost half of all the non *** Internet traffic goin'
right now Netflix is huge no i watch netflix error text for twenty dollars a
month
now it used to be that they could look at the amount of data used
and charger based on that you've got data plans on your cell phone AT&T is
turn that into an art form with cell phones & and a rise in
and in you know home usage
they would say okay you know for the first our you can download it
5 naps five megabytes per second but then we're gonna throw it down to three
or something you know it so if you get somebody who's you note chronically
downloading large files
which probably means that they're their
either in business or they're watching lots of movies or maybe even bootlegging
things then they lead out back to slow it down
that used to be against the law that's
that's been recently legal and you know but but they can hand and they could say
you know you can have a maximum of five big about in bits per second downloader
20 download in five uploader whatever they get they
they could look at speed in quantity and charge you for that
but now since two weeks ago the
you the circuit court here in DC this to Courtney C
ruled that net neutrality doesn't exist
now the ISP's the company is bringing the internet in your house can look
at every site you look at in charge you based on that
the same way that your cable company and Pilates ISP's are the cable companies
right Verizon Comcast
the same way that the cable companies look at what you're trying to look at on
your cable TV and charge you based on that
all you want MSNBC s extra five dollars a month you on HBO its extra ten dollars
a month
or it's just not there if you don't pay
that's how the internet is officially
now they haven't flip the switch is yet they haven't made it this way at
but this Court ruling in the US in in the in the district court here in
in in for the circuit court circular district DC Circuit Court of Appeals
thank you
she know are that ruling
as provided the mechanism for them to do that
this is something Michael Pollan's always in favor of so
wouldn't you think that if you're gonna get Michael Paul the guy who was like
you know the chairman of the FCC who was there
back you know back a blues brother on the FCC 97 rafters are communications
act was passed
that set this up set up the possibility of this
and and then you know the FCC in 2002 and that was litigated before the
Supreme Court 2005 Michael Powell was the chairman the SEC during that time
um argued that the ISP's are not common carriers they're not like phone
companies
to the phone company can't legally listen in on your phone calls and
charger based on
who you're talking to or what you say
as much as they would like to you have a home business they would love to listen
in
because they can charge more for business use right but they have to
prove the air using your phone for business use by Siena publish someplace
they can't listen in there what's called a common carrier
so anyhow you'd think that if NBC has
Michael Pollan you would be a perfect opportunity to say hey happy about that
net neutrality the got blown up two weeks ago
not a word
not a word Michael Powell is also the
president up the largest telecommunications lobbying for me in
the United States
and he was not introduced as a lobbyist
its it's really really bizarre it's like to get the the EU
you you can see this kind of corporate agenda well I mean NBC is owned in large
part by Comcast
Comcast hates net neutrality they're the ones we're gonna make out like bandits
honest
so you know little bit David Perry knows which side is bread is buttered on
and a little bit I love who knows what
so we had that and then in addition to that
we had this whole Rand Paul bill clinton curve awful
show with you when we come back from the break