Price, higher taxes. An example of that recently is the Affordable Care act, which was supposed to help level the Playing Field for small businesses. And weve seen there that higher prices, less innovation, higher taxes. My question to you and a question i get asked in iowa often, mr. Wheel gentlemen, what steps is the fcc going to take to ensure that the internet remains vibrant innovative, and open when history once again has shown us when the heavy hand of the federal government gets involved in a free and vibrant market bad things happen. Thank you. First of all, id like to identify with you as one entrepreneur to another. I too have been a small businessman. Ive started half a dozen companies. Some worked. Some didnt. That happens. You understand that experience as well im sure. And for the decade before i took this job i was a venture capitalist who was invest inging in early stage internet protocolbased companies. And so i know both personally from my own entrepreneurial experie
after the other, before he revealed his own identity. we knew time on this this would be a race that the as soon as the n.s.a. realized there was a significant leak rather than just one document that there would be attempting to track down where it had come from and edward snowden was very clear that he wanted to present his own message and reasons for doing this and why he was doing it before the discussion became about him being bull lead in high school or what an overweight loser he was or whatever this thing becomes. so given that, give than he knew he was going to be identified and he knew he would be charged and he said, you know, i accept the consequence of my actions, i know what they re going to be. rose: we conclude with a conversation about avatars and robots with dmitry itzkov, founder and chairman of the 2045 initiative and david hanson, robotics designer and researcher. we can make self-driving vehicles. we can make planes fly themselves. we can make som
after the other, before he revealed his own identity. we knew time on this this would be a race that the as soon as the n.s.a. realized there was a significant leak rather than just one document that there would be attempting to track down where it had come from and edward snowden was very clear that he wanted to present his own message and reasons for doing this and why he was doing it before the discussion became about him being bull lead in high school or what an overweight loser he was or whatever this thing becomes. so given that, give than he knew he was going to be identified and he knew he would be charged and he said, you know, i accept the consequence of my actions, i know what they re going to be. rose: we conclude with a conversation about avatars and robots with dmitry itzkov, founder and chairman of the 2045 initiative and david hanson, robotics designer and researcher. we can make self-driving vehicles. we can make planes fly themselves. we can make som
the rest of his life and he wanted to control the narrative around his own exposure. he was very clear eyed about that. so that s why you had the dynamic at the beginning of of the story where we publish lead the stories very rapidly, one after the other, before he revealed his own identity. we knew time on this this would be a race that the as soon as the n.s.a. realized there was a significant leak rather than just one document that there would be attempting to track down where it had come from and edward snowden was very clear that he wanted to present his own message and reasons for doing this and why he was doing it before the discussion became about him being bull lead in high school or what an overweight loser he was or whatever this thing becomes. so given that, give than he knew he was going to be identified and he knew he would be charged and he said, you know, i accept the consequence of my actions, i know what they re going to be. rose: we conclude with a co