 So it's 2017 so I figure it's a good time take a minute to talk about net neutrality again now There's a lot of arguments for and against net neutrality So I wanted to address a little bit history and some of those arguments and debates But some are very valid on both sides I mean this is not like the clearest cut-and-dry issue where there's only one side to the story and one person's right One person's wrong and there's no gray or in between there is and that's what makes this such a complicated issue And why it becomes such a heated debate in the big picture of things because some people are right on both sides To a degree So let's dig into this a little bit So the best place to start with net neutrality is understanding its basic premise Providers who are transporting data should treat every packet the same regardless of source destination or the service net neutrality is not About regulating the internet is about regulating the providers of the internet And that's a little bit of important distinction because you're a lot of people make the first argument off It's the government taking over and restricting the internet. No or the restricting free speech. No not exactly It would be like saying the first amendment restricts my free speech No, it's kind of the opposite it ensures your free speech And that's kind of the purpose of this is that all packets get treated equally Doesn't matter what their net desk door destination is from or where they're going to and you pay these internet providers to provide you an Internet connection not a we pick and choose internet connections. That's all the premise of it Now so where the word net neutrality came from and I'm a link to this is Everything is going to have a link to it. So all these articles Books and everything is going to be in the description here So you can have a copy of all of it. I'll actually link to this Google Docs as well I'll make sure everything you can find so law professor Tim will first use the phrase net neutrality in a law of your Oracle in 2003 obviously if you've been on in a long time, you know the word a lot More recently though, it's become more popular vernacular. So it's not a new concept. It's it's been around for a minute so the FCC Decided it was in a public space interests of all packets pass through ISP systems be treated equally each time an ISP was caught breaking These rules the FCC would step in this starts back in about 2004 so the FCC enforcement of this not new either now I'm going to jump a little bit here because there's the argument of It's their network. They can do what they want now. I understand that argument and you're fail I mean, I don't really like the idea of the government coming in reach doing certain restrictions on business But the reality is we need rules and rules need to be applied and the their network argument starts to fall apart very Quickly with a couple things first the $200 billion broadband scandal as a book submitted as evidence and the Federal State Commission It still has an ongoing investigation into this and it is the Trying to figure out why we didn't get what we paid for in short They were afforded the telcos and the carriers to build out the internet $200 billion in a series of different types of tax breaks the details of which are in the book They outline all these different times that occurred. They promise was the 45 Megabit bi-directional fiber high-speed internet and that didn't happen matter of fact We pay more on average in most other countries and we do not have the fastest internet here in America So they didn't make good on the promise. They did take the money. Don't worry about that They certainly took the money in the form of rebates and tax baits to build out this network. So we Kind of paid for this network. So the argument that it's their network They can do whatever they want kind of falls apart because if I'm paid to build a road for people to drive on and then I just take The money and don't build that road that becomes a lot clear of a problem where someone goes Hey, we gave you money to build a road. You didn't build the road for people to go on So what's the problem? It becomes much more convoluted when you give a series of massive tax breaks to a whole bunch of companies to build Out a network with vague promises and not very well written laws and yeah turn into a big mess So that argument kind of falls apart very quickly and I do like equating this a lot to roads we pay construction people to build roads a lot of that's government funded projects and Those companies build the roads people can drive whatever car they want if general motors built a road and engine remoders As we only built this road for GM cars to go down Exclusively you can see where we would have a commerce problem very quickly with it So there's a lot of problems with that whole idea and premise We need a free and open where any car can drive on any road that the concepts really easy to understand in the physical world This same concept needs to apply to net neutrality Now the other thing people keep bringing up and this is where we get to the history part is they say oh Man these providers they didn't restrict internet for a long time They just kind of let packets flow freely and we didn't have these laws And it was just a great market and the mark, you know, it made no sense from the block services. That is absolutely a lie I can't even call that one a gray area. We're gonna run through the history of this and look again all these articles I'm gonna give you the headlines and a brief overview of them, but you can read these all for yourself This is a little bit of a history of these companies Absolutely not behaving and this is actually started as a post by a reddit user Scratty bones and I added to some of the other in-betweens that happen But this is just a summary of all the times when they were misbehaving 2005 Comcast they started denying PDP services without notifying customers and this there's a couple different links here and the EFF said yep, we verified it. They decided just to slow down traffic They didn't like by sending TCP reset packets basically adding noise and interfering with things kind of making a mess now to get the mindset of Things back then this is a quote from AT&T CEO Edward Whitaker They don't have any fiber. They don't have any wires. They don't have anything He argues they use my lines for free and that's bull for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or Anybody to expect these pipes for free is nuts Statement and is quoted over in Bloomberg now what this sets is the premise of the concept that is free first We were paying AT&T to provide internet for me So I don't get AT&T for free. You pay either their phone bill you pay for internet access whether whoever your provider is it costs money I worked in the commercial sector back then and we had commercial pipes from AT&T. They weren't free So I could get to Google on them. I could get to Yahoo I could get to Vonage the Vonage is the real sticking point and you'll see later because they did not like competing phone services being Running across their network. They wanted to block them because that obviously cut into their business model We want to provide you internet pipe and then selectively you get to use it for what we think we can use it for and then you Got to pay us for phone lines separate and then obviously VoIP is a pretty common thing now And they had the foresight to see that it would be a common thing and cut into their high-margin business So 2007 complaint filed against Comcast for filtering traffic. They this was a big debate They were filtering more torrenting traffic. They are there to provide internet service Not filter and pick which websites you can go to or what services you can use across the internet This was a big debate Comcast and I doing it then got caught doing it and then says well We were shaping the traffic not filtering it and you're like yeah You're brought it all down to a crawl if we are paying for XYZ internet We want XYZ internet So if you say I have a 20 meg or a 50 meg connection I have a 20 or 50 meg connection not 20 megs of the data you see fit and then 1 megabit connections of the data You don't see fit Comcast lost And the link to that is below But battle's not over it goes on 2007 AT&T was having Skype and other VoIP processes VoIP services blocked because they thought they didn't like the competition for their cell phones Yeah, that's interesting They decided to start blocking FaceTime because they wanted their own services favored back to the couple years earlier when Mr. Whitaker was complaining about this. This is some of the results of it They would simply block other competing services their services suck So why wouldn't you want to use other services? You're paying for them for internet You don't get your phone for free. Give me the internet 2010 federal communications commissions said it would vote on rules to prevent ISPs from discriminating against the bits of Flowing across networks. Now what this is is a more formal version of some of the rules So FCC was tasked with these things but it was kind of fuzzy because they were trying to figure out how to apply the rules and So as they were making these rulings and fighting with these companies the companies kept pushing back saying you don't have authority over us Then in 2011 Metro PCS tried to block all streaming except YouTube Which is essentially a zero rating service and the concept there is here You're gonna get you know, whatever two gigs of data per month on your phone Whatever that number might be but ain't these particular services don't go against your data plant That sounds really good for consumers at first until you dig into it and realize it's very very Anti-competitive and is actually a net neutrality problem very much so because with net neutrality If you want to start a streaming service you go buy bandwidth YouTube does not get bandwidth free They pay for bandwidth you buy bandwidth you upload videos you share those videos But no one's gonna watch your videos if they can't get zero rated on other services So you immediately have locked into a single competitor and that's just not good for the market Especially I don't post this on YouTube now in other places But YouTube does have some issues and if another company comes up with a better service We will switch to it because that we carry its competition in a free market and we're paying for internet We should have the right services So someone wants to compete with them they can but if companies create these narrow pipes going Oh, no only YouTube is zero rated obviously you stifle competition from 2011 2013 18 18 sprint and Verizon Blocking access to Google wallet because it competed with their systems think about that a second Verizon had this really crappy wallet system to do payments on Phone. I know we're still here in 2017. We still haven't figured this system out But they actively stopped Google wallet from working on their networks. That's just crazy their system was crap I'm not saying Google wallet was awesome But literally going no no we can't have competition But you're paying Verizon for service. You should be able to put whatever you want on there The good news is you don't think about this anymore in 2017 because well after they lost this case You can load Google wallet or whatever wallet service You want on there because blocking things on the network because you want to try and create your own crappy service Doesn't make any sense So 2011 Verizon communication refiles allows you Friday to block net and show regulations passed by the FCC in 2010 They take the position the FTC does not have authority to enforce these rules So this is never seen position as the FCC was been enforcing rules and telling you things like quit blocking stuff Like Google wallet and people's access to the internet and they just instead of okay We lost we realized we did it and now we're just gonna fight with your ability to do it because we don't think you have The authority over us. So back then we jumped to 2012 Verizon was demanding Google block tethering apps on Android Because it let its owners avoid their $20 tethering fee Yes, Verizon even though they charge you for the bandwidth had an additional 20 bucks They wanted to charge you just because you tethered it which didn't really make a lot of sense to me other than because they can They did this. This was despite guaranteeing They wouldn't do it as part of a winning bid on airwaves auction and they were fine $1.25 million over this now if you're in America the federal communications Also sells bandwidth as in they sell spectrum and what that means is they sell a wireless spectrum So you could cell phones can operate on a certain bandwidth. They Verizon had the winning bid They bought a section of spectrum and by doing this they came with a couple restrictions going hey Do not add this restriction Of course Then they added it and got in trouble because they literally violated the rule that they said when they bought it They wouldn't do let's jump to 2012 AT&T tried to block access to FaceTime unless customers paid more money Now this is just another weird one here where they decided that FaceTime Would stop you from using the cell phone as much and he's sometimes where they had a lot of per minute charges for cell phones And they go where oh this is now restricting this and of course you start to pay for the bandwidth on your cell phones And so it's still use bandwidth, but it use it more efficiently so it was to them a workaround for their pricing and obviously they didn't like that and You know FaceTime kind of won out here and they said no you can't block people from using FaceTime once again I'm not arguing about people not paying for the bandwidth But you can't just restrict it because you have a competing app on your On your system and you want them to use your app at a higher cost than some other apps such as FaceTime And this is a statement from Verizon in 2013 in case you were uncertain if they were an awful company Verizon literally stated the only thing stopping them from favoring some content providers over other providers were these pesky net neutrality rules in place Link to that in here now run up to 2014 because they did rule that Verizon was right the FCC did not have authority to Enforce some of the FCC rules so they came up with the 2014 to 2014 FCC title to idea and then in 2015 FCC passes title to net neutrality rules and what title to was yes, it's an older 1934 telecommunication act basically classifying them as a communications carrier and that under that authority they can Enforce all this net neutrality and then we're gonna roll all the way back up to here to 2017 things have been going along We actually I don't have a ton of net neutrality stories in between things started flowing pretty good You realize we can't do these things because we all got in trouble for them So they kind of avoided doing them for a little while what would really solve it And I'm fine with getting rid of net neutrality if we had competition in these broadband markets better I have dealt directly with companies locally. I have dealt with cities locally here that have signed lockouts They do not allow some of the competition into their city by doing that and creating these Exclusive areas for places like Comcast or In some cases the city themselves to provide internet at a really low quality service for a really high price and I'll know competition in there Now great when you're picking somewhere to move really bad once you live somewhere and you've grown up somewhere and go Wow I have access to nothing and now we're creating a digital divide between people because they simply don't have access to the internet at a Reasonable rate and this is something that comes into play as well Now I don't have a problem paying for the bandwidth I don't problem paying for the bandwidth used where I do run a problem So where these companies simply gouge you and charge substantially high prices while at the same time creating Agreements with certain municipalities to not let in competition and until we have competition We can't really get rid of net neutrality I'm all for and I want to continue any way I can in helping the fight towards getting more competition in the broadband market That is a bigger and more challenging thing because you can't just simply flip a switch in a short term Net neutrality makes sense because until there's competition keep the packets flowing freely and without restriction and equally and That is the interim solution. So unless Ajapai has it. Oh, yeah, we're gonna open up broadband That at the same time we end the net neutrality rules I can't agree with them and unfortunately, that's just where I stand on that, you know, there's not a lot of Options in between so feel free to let share your thoughts in the comments below And like I said, this video is me rambling a little bit But it's also to give you an entire list of places you can read and try and form your own opinions on this and gain a Little bit better understanding of where net neutrality came from and where it is today and hopefully where it's going in the future And why it's such a great concern. All right, thanks for watching if you like the content here like and subscribe