Ladies and gentlemen, before i begin i would like to ask you to join me in recognizing an Incredible Group of soldiers sailors, airman marines and coast guards behind me. They are the best at what they do do, whatever they do including putting on sayreceremonyies like this one. Thank you very much. [applause] and mr. Secretary, i couldnt help thinking as the National Anthem is played i would hazard a guess how many times you have heard it but today it was played for you and i hope you remember the lasting service. Mr. President , secretary, men and women of the Armed Forces Good afternoon. It is an honor to thank secretary hagel for his service to our nation and what a Remarkable Service it has been. It started 20 years ago when Timothy Hagel was called in and they said young man you have six months to get back into college or you will be drafted into the vietnam war. Hagel replied i tried colleges, three colleges and lets say it wasnt in the best interest of those institutions to keep
A. Host hello, this is communicators on location. We are talking to policymakers here at ces. This is communicators on cspan from las vegas. And now joining us today on communicators from ces International Show in las vegas we want to introduce you to chris riley with mozilla. Mr. Chris riley what is mozilla . Guest and is a uniquely his structure corporation. We are known for open Source Software products, the firefox web browser and firefox mobile phone, but we are structured differently in the Operations Side of mozilla is owned by the 5013c. At the end of the day our major decisions are driven by our mission and our mission is to advance this. And there was a donation that started in with money that started the original foundation and that later became mozilla fire fox. Host so this is something that you are best known for. How do you make your money . Guest we make our money through licensing deals, but the bulk of the money comes from search licensing. So when you install to the
He is our guest this week on the communicators. Commissioner welcome. The debate on Net Neutrality is a moving target right now on the hill and the fcc getting ready to do something. Whats the debate morph into at this point in your view . Guest first, peter thanks for having me on yet again and you picked a good time. The agency is em broiled in a number of high profile issues, Net Neutrality first and foremost among them. To me, the debate has morphed into a political football which i think is unfortunate because it obscures some Common Ground namely that everyone believes in a free and open internet. And i, for one, embrace as a part of that thenchairman powells four internet freedoms lawful content, applications of ones choice the freedom to attach devices to ones network and transparency in terms of service plan information. The question is how do we embrace those four freedoms in the context of regular ration . Regulation . I, for one, believe the bipartisan consensus that has be
Regulation. Whatever happened to that . Why didnt that get presented to the commissioners . Guest i think youre referring to a couple months ago there was discussion of a hybrid proposal, but that included title ii. And, in fact, there were several different proposals, all of which included title ii. So the chairman really had been considering title ii as part of a Net Neutrality solution. Now id say for about four or five months now. Host well, our guest reporter Gautham Nagesh, had a front page story this week in the wall street journal on the process guest oh yes, i saw it. Host what i wanted to ask was some of the Companies Involved with the white house according to mr. Nagesh are pretty successful companies. Why do they need further protection, as it were . Net neutrality protection, when theyve been successful up to this point . Guest well, the reason those groups and, by the way, chairman wheeler met with those groups in brooklyn, new york last june grouped like tumbler and kick
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