Phil Kerpen discusses Net Neutrality and Free Speech on Glenn Beck

Americans for Prosperity Director of Policy Phil Kerpen discusses Net Neutrality and Free Speech on the Glenn Beck Show. This segment aired on 10/20/09

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[Pv8man]

no, beck is 100% wrong about this one.

net neutrality would prevent ISP's from privileging one internet traffic over any others.

All traffic would be treated equal, the way it is not and should remain.

But AT&T and Comcrap don't like that, they want to interfere with the internet traffic so they can profit from it in any way possible, like what they have been trying so hard to do.

take your tech advise from a real techie like me, not a politician or a news pundit.

[Pv8man]

Jesus christ.....what an idiot.

Net Neutrality has nothing to do with limiting free speech.

It is a bill that would prevent ISP's (AT&T, Comcast, Verizon)

from discriminating one traffic over another.

It would make them treat ALL internet traffic as equal, the way it is now(for now) and the way it should remain.

[samsolor1989]

2:00 Yes, it is. 

[BikiniDeathSquad]

so glad this cocksucker is off television

[boreu2death]

This is my first video watching GB inform the audience about something in the news. I'm not surprised that people who watch his show for news have a backwards view of the world. Very fitting of Beck's ideas.

[RikerRichard]

The people who made the previous comments sound like the same people who gave us Obama. See what that got us and now they're trying to do it with the internet. Create an emergency where there is none, then opt for government take over to fix the mythical problem, pure Alinsky.

[pbmdh]

Why do you people think Glenn got this so fucking wrong? Who do you think pays him? Herpaderpder its fucking OBVIOUS!

[Pv8man]

@jebar84

Besides those two things, there are many other sorts of mischief they could get into if the existing neutrality laws in the "Telecommunications act of 1996" are completely undermined by ISPs

for example, google "Nebu AD spying" and read all about it, it's already been going on for 3 years now.

[Pv8man]

@jebar84

I think you are confusing what I am saying when I mean equal packet treatment, I mean that (along with guaranteeing equal access to everything) also preventing ISPs from moving to a two "pipe" system, where only major sites like CNN.com or FOXnews.com would pay lots of money to ISPs for their websites to load very quick, and all other sites that do not pay extra money will be put in the slow lane.

and when I say slow lane, I mean it will be ridiculously, frustratingly slow.

[jebar84]

@Pv8man Here's the problem: not all internet traffic is created equal. If you treat it all equally, you run into latency. When you do something simple (say, download a small file) you won't notice a tiny bit of latency. On the other hand, when you stream video or play a game, latency will drive you crazy.

The answer is EQUAL ACCESS, not equal packet flow. Net neutrality should be about guaranteeing subscribers have access to everything rather than having equal transfer speeds.

[HsEembryo]

Glenn Beck has either never read an article, book, or anything on net neutrality... or he's just extremely corrupt.

[deefromott]

he's so fucking stupid. Net Neutrality is what we have now you moron!!!!!