Host this week on the communicators our guest is david cohen, comcast executive senior vice president. Hes here to talk about Telecommunications Development and regulation competition, etc. Mr. Cohen, whats included in your portfolio at comcast . Guest so i have a great portfolio, especially someone with adult attention deficit disorder. I like to divide my job into three buckets. One is administrative responsibilities, and i think id probably put my role as chief diversity officer as the lead responsibility, one that im most proud of in that bucket. Then i have an, terrible affairs bucket external affairs bucket including corporate communications, government affairs, regulatory affairs, public policy. And then a bucket of strategic responsibilities that i share with Brian Roberts and dave watson and steve burke and mike caf far, our cfo. So thats enough to keep me busy, thats for sure, but its also enough to make my job incredibly interesting because it is true that every day when i w
Thats what ties all our members together. Everything from Net Neutrality which we will talk about to trade policy to so many other issues, thats what we work on. Host how did you get active in this area . Guest i worked on the hill for 12 years and did a lot of work on telecommunications, internet tech policy and was fortunate when the companies can together want to start this association. Theres a lot of tech associations out there, tech group and tech is very broad, includes hardware, software and other technology. We are just Internet Companies and so i was brought in 201 201d we started the association with ten of 14 members and today we represent 40 companies. Host used to work for fred upton, republican. Does he agree with you and Internet Association on the future of Net Neutrality . Guest i dont work for the children anymore. I cannot speak for him. This is an issue where do you think of bipartisan agreement from republicans on energy and commerce and from senators, Senate Comm
Twitter, netflix. Pretty much all the major apz or websites you are visiting are our members. Host do they have shared concerns in washington . Guest absolutely. The internet economy is incredibly important and that is what ties our members together. Everything from Net Neutrality which we will talk about to trade policy to soy many other issues. There is very much alignment and that is what we work on. Host how did you get active in this area . Guest worked on the hill for 12 years and i was fortunate in 2012 when the companies came together and wanted to start this association there a lot of tech associations and tech is hard including hardware, software and other technologies. We are just Internet Companies so we started the association with 1014 members and represent 40 companies today. Host and you used to work for energy and commerce chairman ed upton. Does he agree with you and the Internet Association on Net Neutrality . Guest i dont work for the chairman anymore so i cannot sp
Verdes. Sarah eisen and mike san tolly holding down the fort at post 9. The nasdaq hitting a fresh record high. A number of big names taking the stage on day one. From his relationship with washington to Driverless Cars to an impact on society. It is recurring panic. People get all amped up that they are going to take the jobs. The jobs that were taken by the auto was 1,000 x, the number that the black smiths have. They call it the labor fallacy, which is technological change causes productivity growth and that lets us produce more of what we can already make with less resources and lets us create. Thats what frees up the spending power to create lots of new things and new demand. Thats what creates new industries and jobs. 100 years later, we look back and think, i cant believe anybody was ever a black smith. Joining us this morning, Karen Swisher is here with us and walt mossberg. Good morning. It is good to see you both. This illustrates the best the ability to take a moment to pond
Is this the smartest building in italy . The latest worker drones. And, beat this, a hearty handful. On july 12th, the internet, as we know it, will change. Go to amazon, twitter, reddit or many other sites and you could be asked to wait on a slower connection, or pay extra, or you may be blocked altogether. Thankfully, these warnings arent real. Theyre part of an internet wide protest, with the aim of protecting Net Neutrality. Net neutrality is the basic principle that protects our Freedom Of Speech on the internet. Its the guiding rules that have made the internet into what it is today, and it prevents our Internet Service providers so the Cable Companies like comcast, horizon and at t from controlling what we can see and do when we go online. Under the Net Neutrality principle, all data should be treated equally by isps. That means they cant slow down companies who refuse to pay to have their data prioritised, and they cant charge customers for fast access to certain data. But the