Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Ashken Kazarian.

On today's show, we're going to talk about Save the Internet Act, a bill that was passed earlier this month by the House of Representatives, and the people who are behind it claim that it restores net neutrality in America

the way it was in Obama era. Joining me, we have President of Tech Freedom, Baron Zoka.

So let's dive in. What is Save Internet Act?

As one supporter of net neutrality recently said, it's not going to pass, but if it were to pass,

it would be an administrative lawyer's wet dream because it raises so many hard issues and so hard to understand what it actually does for a bill that is so deceptively simple.

It's one page, or at least the initial version was one page.

It seemed to simply

restore the 2015 open internet order, restore net neutrality, repeal what the Republican FCC did.

But in fact, it's much more complicated than that. And importantly, it's not what we and

others across the political spectrum have been pushing for, it doesn't actually codify net

neutrality. It simply does this weird kind of what I would call administrative law necromancy.

It attempts to revive a dead administrative law order and declare that that thing is now the law.

It's very strange.

Is that even legally possible?

Probably not, but let's unpack that a little later. Let me just lay out what actually happened.

So this is the response that the House Democrats had promised.

They'd said they were going to do something about net neutrality quickly.

And they did. This is in congressional time, this is pretty quick.

So they had the vote on the House floor on April 9th.

The bill passed on a party line vote.

There was one Republican who voted for it.

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