(2010/08/26) So much for don't be evil (Net Neutrality)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 August 2010
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #400
So much for don't be evil
Act 1: So much for 'don't be evil' - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Blueprint - Arkells
Act 2: Internet Exploiter - Daily Show
Song 2: Once around the block - Badly Drawn Boy
Act 3: Google and Verizon on net neutrality - Countdown
Song 3: Resurrection (space club mix) - PPK
Act 4: Peter and the Wolf meets net neutrality - On the Media
Song 4: Peter and the wolf - Prokofiev
Act 5: Area man consults the Internet - The Onion
Song 5: Wait so long - Trampled by Turtles
Act 6: Google and Verizon have a deal - Young Turks
Song 6: Jenny don't be hasty - Paolo Nutini
Act 7: Net neutrality and the Google-Verizon deal - Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Solid action - The Wes Hollywood Show
Act 8: Internet outage plunges nation into productivity - The Onion
Song 8: The Office UK - Outro #1 - Big George Webley
Act 9: Net neutrality - Countdown
Song 9: The middle - Jimmy Eat World
Act 10: Electronic frontier foundation - Colbert Report
Song 9: Cat faces - Ugly Casanova
Act 10: Cenk's rant on net neutrality - Dylan Ratigan Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
At what point have we lost liberty because we lost privacy? - Thom Hartmann
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| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from Weight Weight |
| 0:12.4 | Don't Tell Me, The Daily Show, Countdown with Keith Olberman, On The Media, The Onion |
| 0:16.4 | Radio News, The Young Turks, The Tom Hartman program, and The Colbert Report with a bonus |
| 0:21.1 | video clip for our iPhone app users from Tom Hartman. |
| 0:30.0 | Here is your next quote. |
| 0:31.6 | So much for Don't Be Evil. |
| 0:34.7 | That was an editorial in the Boston Phoenix noting what internet companies knew unholy alliance |
| 0:40.3 | with Verizon. |
| 0:41.3 | Google. |
| 0:42.3 | That is absolutely right. |
| 0:43.8 | Good job. |
| 0:46.6 | This week Verizon and Google released a set of proposed guidelines that could threaten net |
| 0:54.4 | neutrality, meaning there could someday be two-internets, a free regular internet and |
| 0:59.1 | a paid premium internet. |
| 1:01.0 | For example on a regular YouTube, you can see guys getting kicked in the crotch, but on |
| 1:04.8 | premium YouTube, you can see guys getting kicked in the crotch by a butler. |
| 1:09.8 | On the premium internet, everyone in e-harmony would be a gorgeous model, but on the regular |
| 1:14.0 | internet, you'd be choosing between people who look like Picasso portraits. |
| 1:19.1 | And of course, while the regular internet would have Twitter, the premium internet would |
| 1:23.1 | not. |
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