Episode 101: "Net Neutrality" vs. Internet Freedom (with Berin Szoka)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2015-09-25

Berin Szoka joins us to discuss what the “net neutrality” movement stands for and why the online community is so angry about the state of the Internet.

Why is the internet community—and now, John Oliver—so irate about the state of the Internet? Berin Szoka says the debate over “net neutrality” stopped being about neutrality years ago, and has become a debate over something else entirely, with nothing less than the very nature of the Internet at stake.

With the Federal Communications Commission’s ruling earlier this year, are we going to see a less dynamic, less innovative, less consumer-friendly Internet?

Show Notes and Further Reading

TechFreedom’s website is a wealth of information on current issues in technology policy.
http://techfreedom.org/

The Tech Liberation Front group blog is also a good way to keep updated.
http://techliberation.com/

This Free Thoughts episode with Peter Van Doren is partially about common carrier obligations and how the world of public utilities that we now live in came to be.
http://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts-podcast/regulations-gone-wrong

Berin mentions this post from Dan Rayburn questioning Netflix’s assertion that ISPs were behind apparent service slowdowns last year.
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/06/netflix-isp-newdata.html

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