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The Clark Howard Podcast

10.11.19 FCC battle vs states over net neutrality; Clark Stinks

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The FCC doesn't want states to be able to implement their own rules surrounding net neutrality. Clark explains what this court battle means for consumers and the future of our TV and internet usage. Christa reads listener posts about how Clark has missed the mark in his advice this week. If you have a "Clark Stinks" to share you can leave it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about your empowerment with

0:09.8

knowledge so you can save more and spend less and don't let him whenever rip you off.

0:16.9

Clark.com is our main website, ClarkDeals.com, is where you go to save money around the clock

0:23.4

we post deals for you.

0:25.7

Never anything happens because our deal diggers never sleep.

0:31.6

Except Christmas day, we don't post deals Christmas day.

0:34.9

So when you type in a web address on your cell phone, on your mobile browser, on a laptop,

0:44.8

on a desktop, whatever you put in, you don't make a mistake on the address.

0:49.7

It comes right up, right?

0:51.0

You go to do what you want to, where you want, how you want.

0:54.5

Well, the monopoly cable companies have been fighting for years to be able to discriminate

1:04.8

against websites.

1:06.8

And if people don't pay a money or a monopoly cable company doesn't like the content of

1:13.0

a website, like think about my website at Clark.com where I'm always telling you how to save

1:19.4

money on video content, how to save money on your internet connection, ways to dump the

1:26.6

cable monopoly or the phone monopoly or whatever.

1:29.6

I mean, these companies, I'm certainly not somebody they're thrilled by.

1:34.9

So there's something called net neutrality that the monopoly cable companies and the monopoly

1:43.0

phone companies have been trying so hard for years and years and years to get rid of.

1:48.9

And finally, they got a vote a couple of years ago on a decision that would end, at least

1:58.6

as the federal government was concerned, end was known as net neutrality.

2:03.2

They would then give these monopoly companies a hundred percent control over what you

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