#30: “Net Neutrality” (Ahem, Title II) Progress Report

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 46 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This time last year, the FCC voted 3-2 to reclassify broadband under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act, utility rules designed for railroads and telephone monopolies — all in the name of “net neutrality.” Special guest FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who voted against the Open Internet Order, joins us to give his one-year progress report for the FCC’s Internet regulations. Has the Order protected consumers from harm? Or, as critics warned, has it stifled competition, innovation and investment? Did “reclassification” open Pandora’s Box?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast, your source for policy rants and raves from Tech Freedom,
0:10.9	your Washington, D.C. advocate for the freedom to tinker and innovate. I'm Evan Swartzchabber,
0:15.7	your host. On today's show, net neutrality and internet regulation.
0:25.5	February 26th is the one-year anniversary of the open internet order,
0:33.0	where the FCC reclassified broadband as under utility style rules from the 1930s,
0:35.5	or what the commission would call net neutrality.
0:41.8	Joining me in our DC studio to discuss this is a very special guest, FCC Commissioner Pye.
0:43.3	Commissioner, thank you so much for joining me.
0:44.5	Evan, it's great to be with you.
0:49.3	And also joining me is, again, Third Wheel and President of Tech Freedom, Baron Soka.
0:50.4	Baron, thank you for joining me.
0:50.9	Thanks.
0:52.5	I'm going to host the next show myself.
0:54.9	So, you know, net neutrality,
1:01.1	the movement was largely, you know, driven by concerns of consumer harm, right? That if we didn't pass these very strict regulations on internet providers, that the sky would fall. So we've now
1:07.0	had these regulations on the books since June of 2015. How many consumers have been
1:12.8	saved from evil corporations commissioner? I think there's no telling. Obviously we were living in
1:18.2	this digital dystopia until June of last year when the regulations took effect. And finally,
1:23.1	the sea started apart. The light shone down. and now everything is great in the online world.
1:28.7	But no, in all seriousness, I think that highlights, well, two of the basic problems I had with
1:33.5	the neutrality decision.
1:34.5	I mean, first, that there wasn't any problem to be fixed.
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