Created by americas Cable Television comedies as Public Service and brought to today by your Television Provider. This week on the communicators of democratic member of the federal trade commission, rebecca slaughter. Our guest reporter is leah nylund who covers technology and antitrust for politico. Commissioner slaughter, what has this pandemic fed like for you when it comes to your work at the ftc . Guest thank you so much for thinking for having me. It is a pleasure to be here today. Well, as you can see from my special guest here what this pandemic has involved for me in part has given me a brandnew baby and juggling those response abilities which is not a common occurrence for commissioners pandemic or no pandemic. Ive been muddling through that and then in terms of the work of the agency it has been a really important and really fascinating time. We switch to all telework pretty quickly and i will say it relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by but even thou
Your unfiltered view of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. This week on the communicators, a democratic member of the federal trade commission, rebecca slaughter. Our guest reporter is leah nylund who covers technology for politico. Hasissioner slaughter, what this pandemic been like for you when it comes to your work . You soaughter thank much for having me. It is a pleasure to be here today. As you can see from my special guest here, what this pandemic has involved for me in part is a lot of time with a brandnew baby and juggling those responsibilities, which is not a common occurrence for commissioners in a pandemic or not in a pandemic, so i have been muddling through that. In terms of the work of the agency, its been an important and fascinating time. We switched to all telework quickly, relatively seamlessly, in march, which i was very impressed by. Even though the technological work
Common occurrence for commissioners, pandemic or no pandemic. I have been muddling through that, and in terms of the work of the agency its been a really important and really fascinating time. We switched to all telework pretty quickly and i will say relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by, but even though the technological work got up and running very quickly, at least for me personally, i found it incredibly challenging to be juggling the responsibilities of the job and fulltime parenting. This baby here is my fourth so i have three kids home fulltime and needed fulltime attention, and a job that need fulltime attention. Even with an incredibly supportive partner that was in normalcy challenging. My first reaction to your question is really to think about the logistics, and i know if that was true for me, it was maybe doubly true for our staff across the agency just like it is for people working from home across the country whether they have small children in th
Thanks are being with us for the first time ever. Guest my pleasure. Host i want to start and ask you, what exactly is the ftcs responsibility when it comes to telecommunications . Guest the federal trade commission has no jurisdiction over common carriers, although it can investigate and challenge conduct that the pilots is the antitrust laws or the Consumer Protection laws if it is a noncommentary activity thats undertaken by common carriers. The Net Neutrality debate took away jurisdiction from the federal trade commission for broadband isps when the isps were categorized under title ii as common carriers, and with the rolling back of the Net Neutrality regulations we do now i can have jurisdiction over broadband isps. Host define a common carrier. Guest im sure theres a very technical definition but it is an entity that falls within title ii of the ftc jurisdiction. Host with that be a landline phone company . Guest yes. Host when it comes to the Net Neutrality provisions or lack t
Live coverage of key to hearings on cspan and cspan3, online at cspan. Org, or listen live with the free cspan radio app. This week on the communicators, we want to introduce you to the newest member of the federal communications commission, br endan carr who has been a commissioner since august. Brendan carr thank you for having me on. Astarted at the fcc as stafford back in 2012. I most recently served with the general counsel for eight months for moving into this position as a commissioner. It has been fun to serve in various capacities. Host a full plate . We have a full slate of commissioners right now. All have had experience at the agency before. We have been able to move quickly over the last couple months. It has been fastpaced and enjoyable. Host we want to talk about that. I wanted to talk about Net Neutrality. That has been one of the biggest things that has happened in the last weekend. I am curious what you see this proposal doing, and how it might affect consumers. Hear