Nicholas Thompson Talks to David Remnick About the End of Net Neutrality
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🗓️ 11 December 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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On December 14th, the Internet and everything you do on it may change. The commissioners of the F.C.C. are going to vote on regulations about net neutrality: the principle, in place since the advent of the Web, that Internet service providers must treat all content equally. I.S.P.s can’t change data speed to favor some Web sites, or charge different rates for different content. Web sites great and small, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, are in favor of neutrality, but the telecom companies that deliver Internet service would very much like to do away with it. An end to neutrality would allow them to institute differential pricing strategies, for example, or favor content that the telecoms themselves own. A majority of F.C.C. commissioners are poised to repeal the net-neutrality regulations, but Nicholas Thompson—formerly the editor of NewYorker.com, and now the editor-in-chief of Wired—tells David Remnick that all hope is not lost.  Â
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| 0:50.5 | On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick and Wired editor Nick Thompson discuss |
| 0:56.4 | net neutrality. |
| 1:01.5 | On December 14th, the Internet and everything you do on it is very likely to change. |
| 1:06.3 | The commissioners of the FCC are going to vote on regulations about net neutrality. |
| 1:11.7 | And if you think this doesn't concern you, you might want to listen. |
| 1:14.8 | Net neutrality means that your internet provider can't change your data speed to favor certain websites |
| 1:20.7 | or charge you different rates for different content. |
| 1:24.2 | And this has been a principle since the founding of the internet. |
| 1:29.1 | But now over the objections of websites great and small, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Etsy, and Kickstarter, the FCC may be |
| 1:36.0 | set to do away with its regulations on net neutrality entirely. Here to walk me through what that |
| 1:41.6 | would all look like is Nicholas Thompson. Formerly my close colleague is editor of New Yorker.com, and now he's the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. |
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