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Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2017
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.1 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:18.5 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. How about a little follow-up? |
| 0:21.3 | So Brian, what did you think of the net neutrality day of action? |
| 0:24.8 | Oh, when was that? |
| 0:26.4 | Wednesday, I believe. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, that's the day I got all the pop-up saying an old school like animated |
| 0:32.8 | geeks that were like loading, loading on like five pages I looked at. |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah, I think I saw like three times at the most. |
| 0:40.7 | I went to Google thinking, oh, Google joined the protest, let's go see what Google did. |
| 0:44.1 | And there was a Google doodle about a dead Japanese costume designer. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm like, hmm, how's this tie-in to net neutrality? |
| 0:51.2 | In a very influential one, I mean. |
| 0:53.4 | Oh, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:55.2 | But nothing, yeah, it was it was a big nothing as far as I could tell again. |
| 0:59.6 | Well, there was some action around the globe. |
| 1:03.6 | There's a tech branch article that lists off some of the highlights. |
| 1:06.9 | So we had, was it two million comments to the FCC website? |
| 1:10.8 | That's good. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, five million emails to Congress. |
| 1:14.1 | Okay, that's very good. |
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