Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle the single most important social equalizer of our time the internet is under grave threat the decision by the federal Communications Commission essentially gives Internet Service providers the keys to the internet without Net Neutrality will be Economic Opportunity divide only widen for all. Stocking Net Neutrality im joined by my guest who rivera in new york he is the editorial director for reactionary times and a news max columnist and in tampa we have Scott Rickard he is a former american intelligence linguist right gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate scott let me go to you first in tampa first i want to kind of express my bewilderment but maybe it should and shouldnt be will be looking at Mainstream Media covering this story on Net Neutrality a lot of stories out there but the meaning of it seems rather moot. To me and its i think its beca
All although it was the russian president who said recently that its not fair to do a blanket ban across a whole team when if theres one bad apple or two bad apples theres no sense behind that also down when you and me were speaking earlier the idea of allowing some olympians to compete under a neutral flag what does that do to combat the opening well exactly and you mentioned earlier already that perhaps the reason element as many analysts have said of politicize ation here and its ironic that that has been raised because the olympic charter in itself says they oppose the political abuse of sports athletes now if you remember the statement by one of the keel of British Isles Philip Craven last year or perhaps earlier this year. He made a very interesting remark which many took offense to lets just listen to what he had to say on russia cleaning up its act as a nation. About how the russians competing again until they got to the right policy but sure they are a clean nation never mind
And you know shedding responsibility i mean they have to have f. C. C. Is supposed to make sure that people have access to broadband ok i mean on the on the on the very top of their responsibilities. You know and so i wonder looking at you know shouldnt they be these Big Companies be broken up and we had standard oil we had other Major Companies that were broken up i mean it seems to me theres too much concentration of power too much concentration of money and its bad for the marketplace and for consumers go ahead scott. Well theyve tried that they did break up ma bell bell was broken up and then read. A actually at war divorce they remarried under a didnt see and all the all the bells came back together they also tried that with the seal ex and they a lot of people did make some decent money but obviously those have been all basically gobble back up they did the same thing in the cable industry those all started out very local and you had advance newhouse one of the ones early on here
A news max columnist and in tampa we have Scott Rickard he is a former american intelligence linguist originally crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate scott let me go to you first in tampa first i want to kind of express my bewilderment but maybe it should and shouldnt be will be looking at Mainstream Media covering this story on Net Neutrality a lot of stories out there but the meaning of it seems rather moot. To me and its i think its because so many of these news outlets are owned by Internet Service providers ok like comcast and others like that here i mean what is the significance of this move because i think you know an era of the internet and as i said in my introduction i mean one of the great social equalizers of our time is under threat and maybe well tell our grandchildren i remember the golden years go ahead scott well thats interesting i mean its very multifaceted obviously the Media Companies i have a very symbiotic
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