Open internet. We will speak with professor tim wu, credited with coining the phrase Net Neutrality. Then to the cultural destruction of iraq. The proper orders to get rid of statues and relics, companions to the same. A new video posted by the Islamic State shows men some using sledgehammers and drills destroying ancient artifacts at a museum in mosul. We will speak to an art and archaeology professor who has spent years trying to preserve iraqs Cultural Heritage. We will also hear why Wisconsin RepublicanGovernor Scott walker has compared isis to the unions of wisconsin. If i could take on 100,000 protesters, i can do the same around the world. And we will go to pasco washington, to look at the Police Killing of Antonio Zambranomontes. Cell phone video shows zambrano, who was unarmed, turning to face police and raising his hands before he was shot. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The federal Communications Commission has voted in favor of historic rules to preserve a free and open internet. After a record four million Public Comments the fcc approved , rules to prevent corporate Internet Service providers from blocking access to websites, slowing down content or providing paid fast lanes for Internet Service. This is fcc chair tom wheeler. This is no more a plan to regulate the internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate free speech. They both stand for the same concept. Openness expression, and an absence of gatekeepers telling people what they can do, where they can go, and what they can think. The action that we take today is about the protection of internet openness. We will speak with professor tim wu who coined the term Net Neutrality, after the headlines. Congress appears set to avert a partial shutdown of the department of Homeland Security just hours before the agency runs out of money. Republicans have repeatedly sought to tie the funding to a reversal of obamas executive actions on immigration. But House Republicans appear poised to back a clean stopgap measure to fund the department for three more weeks, postponing the battle. More information has emerged about the british man nicknamed jihadi john who was appeared has appeared in Islamic State beheading videos. Mohammed emwazi is a 26yearold born in kuwait who moved to the gush to britain as a child and studied Computer Science at the university of westministe. The british Advocacy Group cage said he faced at least four years of harassment, detention deportations, threats, and attempts to recruit him by security agencies, which prevented him from leading a normal life. Emwazi approached cage in 2009 after he was detained and interrogated by mi5 on what he said was supposed to be a safari vacation in tanzania. In 2010, after he was barred from returning to kuwait, emwazi wrote, i had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started. But now i feel like a prisoner only not in a cage, in london. In 2013, one week after he was barred from kuwait for a third time, emwazi left his parents home. Edit news conference, Cage Research director Asim Quereshi spoke about emwazi and compared his case to another man who hacked a soldier to death in london in 2013, michael abe debolajo. It is hard. Didnt expect he was such a beautiful young man, really. It is hard to imagine the trajectory, but it is not unfamiliar for us. You see Michael Adebolajo came to me looking for help, looking to change things in the system. When are we going to finally learn that when we treat people as if they are outsiders, they will inevitably feel like outsiders and they will look for belonging elsewhere. That is Cage Research director speaking in london. The United Nations has reported credible and reliable accounts of torture at u. S. Military facilities in afghanistan which took place in 2013. The torture was reported by prisoners at two u. S. Facilities north and west of the capital kabul. The u. N. Also detailed the ongoing torture of prisoners by the u. S. Backed afghan government. Theres a new development in the case of a u. S. Soldier who went awol in 2007 and sought asylum in germany because he opposed the war in iraq. The luxembourgbased European Court of justice ruled thursday that to obtain asylum andre , shepherd would need to show he would have been involved in war crimes if he had followed orders to deploy to iraq. Shepherd spoke on thursday. What happens when you have a soldier such as myself who isnt a content his objector from the aspect of want to reject every war. You have to defend yourself, of course. Iraq wasnt one of those. They did not help the iraqi people at all, certain he did not help the American People at all. All we have is senseless death and destruction and the rise of isis. So why would i want to take part in that . The final decision in shepherds case will be made by a german court. In the u. S. , wisconsin governor has compared religions from the selfproclaimed Islamic State to prounion labor protesters. Thousands of protesters have flooded the capitol over an antiunion righttowork bill, passed by the state senate this week. Well have more on wisconsin later in the broadcast. In argentina, a judge has rejected a late prosecutors allegations argentine president Cristina Fernandez de kirchner helped cover up irans role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Center that killed 85 people. The prosecutor, Alberto Nisman was found dead in january just one day before he was due to testify on his findings. But judge Daniel Rafecas ruled there was no evidence to support nismans claims. The Obama Administration is sending two top diplomats to the annual gathering of the powerful proisrael group aipac. The conference opens sunday just two days before israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is set to address congress in a bid to undermine attempts at a nuclear deal with iran. White House National security advisor susan rice, who has called netanyahus visit destructive, will address the aipac summit, along with u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Samantha power. A group of 30 aid agencies has condemned the lack of progress rebuilding gaza after the summers israeli assault. The group says reconstruction tens of thousands of destroyed homes, schools, hospitals has been woefully slow with 100,000 palestinians still displaced. The agency is called on israel to lift its blockade, which has barred needed Construction Materials from entering. I asked them says it will take over 100 years to rebuild gaza if the israeli blockade remains. And those are some of the headlines, this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Advocates of a free and open internet are celebrating a vote thursday by the federal Communications Commission to approve strong Net Neutrality rules. The move bans paid prioritization by Internet Service providers who seek to charge extra fees from content producers, as well as blocking and throttling of lawful content. The new rules will also apply to mobile access. The vote is seen as a major victory for grassroots Advocacy Groups. They have spent years campaigning to preserve an open internet. This is fcc chair tom wheeler. While some other countries try to control the internet, the action that we take today is in your refutable reflection of the principal that no one whether government or corporate, should control free and open access to the internet. [applause] the internet the internet is the most powerful and pervasive platform on the planet. It is simply too important to be left without rules and without a referee on the field. After nearly two hours of discussion thursday, wheeler joined democratic commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn in a three to two vote along party lines. So let me close where i began , with a shout out to 4 million americans who took their time to share with us their views. Today, history is being made by a majority of this commission as we vote for a fast, fair, and open internet. And what that, i will call for the yeas and mayes. Nayes. The ayes have it. [applause] president obama welcomed the fccs vote with a thank you letter posted online to users of reddit. Their outreach along with groups like free press helped lead to an outpouring of an unprecedented 4 million comments to the fcc in favor of Net Neutrality. But others, like former fcc chair Michael Powell, complained the vote is a setback. Powell is now president of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association which is the most powerful agency representing the cable industry. He said consumers would surely will bear the burden of new taxes and increased costs, and they will likely wait longer for faster and more Innovative Networks since investment will slow in the face of bureaucratic oversight. Well, for more, we go to washington, d. C. , where we are joined by tim wu. Policy advocate and Columbia University law professor who is known for coining the term Net Neutrality back in 2003. 2002. He has previously served as a Senior Advisor to the federal trade commission. Hes also the author of, who controls the internet and the master switch the rise and fall of information empires. He writes regularly for the new yorker, where his latest piece in reaction to thursdays vote is headlined, why everyone was wrong about Net Neutrality. Tim wu, welcome back to democracy now it is great to have you with us. You are usually in new york, but you went down to washington to celebrate last night. Talk about the significance of the fcc decision. This is simply a historic decision. It was a long time in the making. Some of us have been working on this me personally, for 13 years. I think it said it on a different half. It says their need to be basic rules of the road for the internet, and we are not going to trust cable and Telephone Companies to respect freedom of speech or respect new innovators because of their poor tract records. I think it is a major step forward, huge legacy of achievement for the Obama Administration and this chairman tom wheeler. Theres a sense of jubilation here in washington. Tim, the decision of verizon for example, to blast this with morse code, as it referring back to her previous commit occasion europe, i was struck by the fact i dont think verizon sees the irony of its actions. The old telegraph because of lack of government regulation, become a largely Western Union monopoly and out of the reach of ordinary americans. Was only used by the wealthy. Theyre actually using the old morse code telegraph analogy to buttress an argument that clearly bankrupted in terms of the failure of the modern Communications Companies to be able to allow to maintain public access. I think they knew need new talking points. There are still relying on arguments where they say, hands off the internet. They say the same thing. Theres going to be 5, 10 competitors in the market. Everyone has watch the broadband market, which used to have hundreds of competitors in the early 1990s, go to more and more consolidation. They keep saying competition and random things. They dont even connect with anyone. Right or left. They have kind of lost touch. That is why they were so defeated in his latest round. They kept saying the same things, but no one was listening. Therefore, the commission, to its credit, really did what the people wanted. Most people say, how do you feel about cable or the phone companies putting up slow lanes slowing down some traffic and speeding up people say, we dont like that. This not just the democrat side. Nobody likes that. I think they really havent done a good job if there is a case to be made on their side, they havent done it. Talks can you explain exactly what title ii is and how exactly the internet will be regulated . Sure. In 1934 this is an allusion that verizon is making the new Deal Congress david a Broad Authority to regulate everything by wire. Document occasions by wire. Their idea back then was to control the monopoly power that was manifest in the earlier version of for rise in named at t verizon named at t. Basically at its centerpiece Net Neutrality nondiscrimination role. Frankly, keeps the internet the way it is now and just makes it very clear to the phone and Cable Companies that you cant block anything. You may not like the website to you cant block it. You cant degrade service. You cant set up slow lanes. That is to say, you cant go around and say, hey, if you dont want to be slowed down you need to pay us more money. Those dont seem very outrageous to most americans. Frankly, they are not, which has been challenging for the telecom lobby. Though seem straightforward. Frankly, they are the way the internet is. We had some kind of Net Neutrality rules for very long time. The reason were here is because verizon sued to strike them down. They have gotten themselves title ii responders refers to a stronger with supporting the law. And the importance of the fcc extending this not just to broadband cable, but also to mobile devices . This is a major victory which goes way beyond what the First Administration the first Obama Administration did. The chairman recognized, and i think a lot of people have been saying for a long time, a lot of broadband is moving to wireless. To say, you can do whatever you want on wireless but on broadband, doesnt make sense. They extended the principle Net Neutrality to wireless. I think it is a big step forward as well. Tim wu you have an interesting history, how you came to be involved with the internet and quantum the term Net Neutrality. Coined the term Net Neutrality. You ran for Lieutenant Governor here in new york. But way before that, you clerk for supreme Court JusticeStephen Breyer and talk about even before that, how you came to be involved with the internet. Give us a brief background. Back in the early days, i was in Silicon Valley in the early 2000s right when the big center of the boom. I worked for Telecom Company who made the stuff that was going to attack or destroy Net Neutrality. We were trying to sell it to the Chinese Government to sort of sensor stuff and trying to sell it to american Cable Companies. I was a fairly loyal employee. After a while i said, this is going to make internet terrible. Even earlier than that, i had been a computer programmer, a good oldfashioned computer geek. I saw this as a threat. When i conducted deem you to the first thing i said was, we need this principle called Net Neutrality. Nobody paid attention. It caught on somehow and 13 years later, i guess. Starting with that innate sense the idea the internet would become like cable television, it is kind of this crappy sorry. Just whatever makes money is feeling thing that survives. I thought, this is a terrible it was from a personal place. 13 years later, i guess it was worth it. For a time, you are having a Good Relationship with Michael Powell, the former fcc chair under george w. Bush. Now you are, clearly, on opposite sides with him on this issue. To get Michael Powell a little credit, to some degree he got the Net Neutrality thing started. No person is completely good or completely bad in what they do. He recognized there was a thr