In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and on this weeks communicators, a discussion on the fccs upcoming debate and vote on repealing the Net Neutrality regulations. A couple of weeks ago previn can carr brendan carr was a guest on this program. Heres what he had to say about Net Neutrality. In a nutshell, what this document proposes to do and ill be voting for it december 14th is return the internet to the exact same Regulatory Framework that governed the internet starting from 2015 all the way back from 20 years that preceded it. And under that environment we saw mass investment, we saw consumers protected and free and open internet. Most fundamentally, we all believe in a prix and open internet free and open internet, but whats the right Regulatory Framework to support that. Host gigi sohn, you were at the fcc with democratic chair tom wheeler during the time that Ne
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Meeting . Guest well, the fcc proposed a set of rules to adopt open internet principles. The fcc tried in 2010 to put rules into place, but most of those rules were overturned in court. So the fcc tried to in a pragmatic way put into place rules that insure theres not blocking of traffic, theres not degradation of traffic on the internet and so forth. But they also sought comment on a variety of other different approaches. So i think given the complexity of the situation, given all of the politics involved and all of the questions involved in this, i think they did a pretty good job. I think they asked the right questions, and its absolutely appropriate that so many people are writing in and commenting. This is a tremendously important issue. Host matt wood is with free press, hes their policy director. Mr. Wood, what do you think . Guest well, we think that the fcc did ask some of the right questions, but the path their proposing to do preventing blocking, degrading of traffic is just
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