Net neutrality special edition

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a special edition episode of The Vergecast for you this week. On Thursday, the FCC put out a draft proposal for reversing the net neutrality order of 2015. The Verge has been following FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s actions in restoring “Internet Freedom” and how it will affect the internet for all of us. Nilay Patel invites news editor Jake Kastrenakes on the show, who has been reporting on this for the past few months, as well as senior reporter Adi Robertson, who reported on the FCC’s net neutrality rules back when this was a problem in 2014. The trio talk about the past, present, and future of the open internet and the FCC’s actions disrupting it. If you’re out of the loop or just need more information on this topic, now is the time to listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the VRGCAST. The flagship podcast of the VRG.com, a multi-sensory internet
0:12.0	experience that will honestly soon be throttled by your local internet provider. That's where
0:16.7	we are in life. Anyway, look, here's a situation. This is a special episode of the VRGCAST.
0:22.8	The usual crew I've kicked them out. There's no Deeter. Actually Deeter had a good
0:25.8	meeting. So this is not all worked out. But there's no Deeter. There's no Paul. It's
0:29.8	me. It's Neely. But Jake Kastranakis is here. Hey, Jake. Hello. How's it going?
0:33.3	Addy Robertson is here. Hi. And I want to see something special this week. We have talked
0:37.4	around NetNutrality on the VRGCAST for several weeks now. But Ajit Pai, the chairman of the
0:42.2	FCC, put out his plan today. This is Thursday. He put out his plan today for the future of Net
0:48.9	Nutrality, which is far as I can tell means getting rid of it. That's more or less. That's
0:55.1	more or less it. And what's interesting to me anyway is that Jake has been reporting on
0:59.8	this stuff nonstop for the past several months. In 2014 and 15, Addy did a ton of reporting
1:08.4	on this for us. And the new plan really harkens back to the old plan. So I thought it would
1:13.8	be really fun to have both of these guys here. So we could talk about what the hell is going
1:17.8	on. Because the future of NetNutrality, what we think of it and how it had been settled
1:24.7	is now as near as I can tell, totally up for grabs. And the future, basically how we access
1:30.2	all of the services on the internet is thus up for grabs as well. Is that kind of your
1:34.0	read right now, Jake? Yeah. The thing is they've basically left the table wide open, right?
1:40.0	So we're going through the exact same fight that Addy covered a few years ago where we're
1:45.1	going what legal authority should we use to implement NetNutrality? And if at all.
1:51.4	If at all. Right. Yeah. That's the thing. So I mean, here's the really big question that
1:54.8	they're asking with this proposal. Should we even have NetNutrality? That's the thing.
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