Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future.

I'm April Glazer.

And I'm Will Riemus.

Hey, everyone, welcome to If Then.

We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America.

We're recording this on the afternoon of Monday, December 18th.

On today's show, we'll talk about the continuing fallout of the FCC's three-to-two vote to kill net neutrality,

and what that means for mega-mergers like Fox and Disney.

We'll also talk about Uber's misdeeds and the future of that company. Later, we'll be joined by Mozilla executive director, Mark Sermon, to talk about the browser wars. That's Firefox versus Chrome for those on familiar, as well as net neutrality and what his organization is doing to keep the internet free and open. And lastly, don't close my tabs, our picks for the best on the web this week.

Will, how are you doing this week?

I know you're still up north with us, fleeing the fires where you're based in Santa Barbara.

Yeah, that's right.

And fingers crossed, it sounds like the firefighters may be getting a handle on things down there with the fires in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. What about you, April? How are you doing? I'm good. You know, my head's finally up a little bit from the net neutrality race that I was running last week. That story is not going away. We're going to talk about it a little bit more further on down the show.

But one thing I wanted to touch on quick this week before we get into the news that you're focusing on is that Twitter is actually taking some real concrete steps now to knock off people who kind of peddle and hate speech on their platforms, right? That happened today. We're

recording this on Monday. Yeah, they had promised a little while back that today they would start

enforcing new rules. And it's part of this bigger change at Twitter where they have moved from

being what they once called the free speech wing of the free speech party, where sort of anything

goes and it's a laissez-faire attitude toward online speech to this much more proactive approach to abuse and harassment and hate speech.

This is all part of that. Did you happen to see who they've kicked off so far?

Is anybody noteworthy?

At least somebody from the group Britain First, which is the org that made some of the anti-Muslim videos that Trump retweeted recently got kicked off. And so they

actually do seem to be moving forward with this. But well, beyond hate speech and net neutrality

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