 So last year on the program we talked about Joe Biden's proposal for net neutrality and municipal broadband and it was Surprisingly really strong, you know for Joe Biden someone who is overall mostly conservative and where he is progressive He usually only supports incremental progressive reforms, you know for net neutrality. He He has a great plan like I have to give him credit birds do However, one of the responses to my video about Joe Biden's net neutrality proposal was skepticism and I think rightfully so because Joe Biden has ties to Internet service providers who don't support net neutrality. I mean they contribute to his campaign. He actually kicked off his 2020 campaign With a lobbyist for Comcast holding a fundraiser for him So when you see that you've got a thing Okay, is he even actually going to follow through one special interests get in his ear? But my pitch as to why I do believe Joe Biden as president can make a difference when it comes to net neutrality is because the president Isn't necessarily involved with net neutrality. This comes down to who they appoint as FCC chair Now Donald Trump didn't even know what net neutrality was literally like he put out tweets Talking about net neutrality and condemning it but the way that he described it tells me that he had never even heard of it So a jeep pie basically unilaterally and implemented his own agenda So for Joe Biden to actually carry out his vision All he needs to do is appoint someone to be the FCC chair Who actually saves net neutrality restores net neutrality and invests in municipal broadband? Which would be a game changer now This is what I said specifically and I made the case for a very specific individual that I wanted Joe Biden to promote to FCC chair Look at Jessica Rosenwurzel as one of the options here So she's currently an FCC commissioner and all Joe Biden has to do is name her as a jeep pies replacement Which is something that isn't out of the realm of possibility. She's certainly someone who he'd consider and She would actually do wonders now I will say this that Jessica Rosenwurzel who's a current FCC commissioner She wasn't always the biggest ally to net neutrality because let me remind you back in the Obama years He appointed a Comcast lobbyist to be the FCC chair Tom Wheeler and he appointed Tom Wheeler after Tom Wheeler Donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to him or fund raised hundreds of thousands of dollars For Barack Obama So that appointment was the result of corruption and one of the first things that Tom Wheeler Tried to do was dismantle net neutrality by introducing fast lanes which was a way of Allowing internet service providers to carve out these types of packages not necessarily Explicitly in the way that you know a jeep pies rules would have allowed But just by saying hey if you pay us more we'll give you faster internet for this website When that's not okay that undermines net neutrality But what happened was Tom Wheeler ended up becoming one of the biggest allies to the net neutrality movement ever And he gave activists everything that they wanted because he succumbed to public pressure They were protesting in front of his house and the campaign that net neutrality activists mounted against him was highly successful So much so that not only did he declare the internet a public utility But he went even further than that and started to regulate zero rating which basically allows cell phone carriers like Verizon To undermine net neutrality in a roundabout way using zero rating because they can say hey Us at Verizon here. We have this brand new streaming service and if you use our streaming service This isn't going to count towards your data, but if you use Netflix that will count towards your data So I mean this is anti-consumer. It's anti-competitive It allows these types of you know cell phone providers and internet service providers to basically rig the rules in their favor And give themselves the advantage that other competitors don't have So Tom Wheeler started to you know hone his craft a little bit really zero in On these types of practices and Jessica Rosenwurzel was a part of the Obama administration She was part of that Tom Wheeler era where they were aggressively trying to make the internet more free and open So even if back in 2015 she kind of downplayed the importance of municipal broadband saying oh well You know, this is something that I don't want to you know get people's hopes of about But it seems kind of unlikely because it's difficult to do the infrastructure and whatnot and building it would be a hassle Now things have changed She wasn't an ally But now she is and if Joe Biden only did one thing with regard to net neutrality and made Jessica Rosenwurzel the FCC chair and Replaced a Jeep pie he could fulfill all of the promises that he's saying now and then some because he's not actually the one That's doing it. It's Jessica Rosenwurzel who we do actually trust to do what he's saying he wants to do So that was in July of last year and I am pleased to announce that I got exactly What I wanted the individual who I hoped Joe Biden would appoint like the best case scenario That's what we got. This is phenomenal news If you are an advocate of net neutrality and if you want public municipal broadband like this is Caused for celebration now as NBC News reports President Joe Biden has picked Jessica Rosenwurzel to run the Federal Communications Commission as its acting chair Making the 49-year-old lawyer and podcast host from West Hartford, Connecticut The second woman to be appointed to that role in the Commission's 96-year history The job involves such daunting tasks as helping millions of Americans get reliable access to the Internet Rosenwurzel first came to the FCC over 20 years ago in 1999 before leaving the agency to be a congressional aide in 2007 as senior communications counsel for the Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation In 2012 she returned to the FCC where she was appointed to be a commissioner under President Barack Obama She was renominated in 2017 by President Donald Trump while the FCC was led by Chairman Ajit Pai During his historic undoing of the country's network neutrality protections now as the president's choice to lead the agency She's likely to pick up the network neutrality baton again Which prohibited internet service providers from charging websites to reach users at faster speeds when Chairman Tom Wheeler ran the agency under Obama Rosenwurzel boldly pushed him to create more aggressive network neutrality rules a stance He eventually adopted and led to the network neutrality protections that were passed in 2015 And when Pai came to lead the agency with the intention to take a weed wacker to net neutrality in 2017 She didn't sit quietly either quote. Let's roar. Let's make a ruckus. Let's stop this plan in its tracks She tweeted in 2017 when Pai released this plan to rescind the net neutrality rules over 22 million comments were submitted to the agency in response to the removal of the internet traffic rules, so this is absolutely Fantastic news if you are a supporter of net neutrality and most people are it doesn't matter if you are you know a Socialist or a conservative or a liberal. It doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum you're on. This is a very very popular thing So if you are a proponent of net neutrality This is definitely cause for celebration because Jessica Rosenwurzel is basically one of if not the best ally that we have in This fight. She's been a long time proponent of net neutrality regulations and this Mean she's gonna be in a position to undo a jeep pies 2017 repeal of net neutrality now a court already Basically shot down portions of it because in his repeal of net neutrality There was a clause in it that allowed states that allowed the FCC to block states from implementing their own net neutrality laws and Of course courts threw that portion out So we have some states mostly popular states like New York and California with net neutrality laws and other states red states primarily Without net neutrality protections, but she's gonna restore that and what's important is that she and Joe Biden are in favor of building up Public municipal broadband now we're gonna go back and forth Unless we actually pursue this path because when it comes to net neutrality It is the case that sure she can restore net neutrality again But the next Republican administration can appoint an FCC chair that just undoes it again So how do we get a long-term solution? So we don't have to deal with this issue every couple of years Well, we opt for public municipal broadband because the only reason why net neutrality is an issue is because we don't have a variety of ISPs like in your area, you probably have one or two if you're lucky so if we Have our own local municipal broadband service that we control net neutrality would be an irrelevant issue Because if Comcast chooses to charge you more money to get access to certain websites or to get faster speeds to websites That doesn't matter if you have your own ISP if it's publicly owned municipal broadband You control it. You do what you want So we don't have to worry about this issue if we get that and if Joe Biden funds Infrastructure projects for municipal broadband. This really is a game-changer Jessica Rosalyn-Warsall being in this position is a game-changer So, you know a lot of leftists rightfully so were Fresh rated the C. Joe Biden sworn in I'm not gonna lie I was salty as hell because I wanted Bernie Sanders to be the president, but this is a victory for us This is a huge victory for us. The fact that he has chosen Jessica Rosalyn-Warsall This is this is everything if you are a net neutrality proponent So look, I'll take a win where I can get it And this is a really huge victory for advocates of freedom on the internet