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Could net neutrality regulations hamper the experience of an online video gamer?

Should video gamers even care about net neutrality?

Joining me to discuss this is Tom Struble, Policy Council at Tech Freedom.

Tom, thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Evan.

Excited to be back on the show.

So, as listeners might know, we've talked about this on the show before, but just to

bring everyone up to speed, in June, the FCC's reclassification of broadband as a telecommunications

service took effect.

And since then, we've had these rules on the books.

And some of these rules were

uncontroversial, basic net neutrality rules like don't block internet traffic, don't discriminate

unreasonably, et cetera. But there's one rule that was controversial, and that's what video

gamers should care about. That's the complete blanket ban on a paid prioritization, meaning that if your video game

company wanted to pay to make your experience better, perhaps, that would be illegal.

So Tom, you're a video gamer.

I play video games as well.

Why should video gamers care about what the FCC did and net neutrality in general?

Well, yes, I am a video gamer.

I have been my whole life, grew up in a sleepy town in the middle of Kansas,

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