
Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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John Oliver's 13-minute Last Week Tonight segment explains the 2014 net neutrality fight over cable companies creating unequal internet speeds. It uses comedy to make a dull regulatory topic engaging and tells viewers how to comment to the FCC.
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HN commenters use it as the go-to funny, accessible explanation of net neutrality and credit it with driving public comments to the FCC.
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What was that? I am so disappointed to see that they featured a video showing net neutrality being ONLY about facebook, youtube and more video streaming... If they wanted to go mainstream, John Oliver did a much better job (and funnier, btw) [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗In case you haven't seen John Oliver's take on Net Neutrality, this video is 13 minutes well spent: [VIDEO] "Tom Wheeler is [like] a dingo"
Read original comment ↗What can a "hacker" possibly have against John Oliver? He and his team were the most effective drivers for stronger Net Neutrality policies in the US. The man is a living legend. Edit: 12 million views on the abstract topic of Net Neutrality. That's what I would call a feat indeed: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I agree that our bandwidth to price ratio is shitty in this country. But until we have viable competition in THIS country, our rates won't come down. John Oliver's rant on Net Neutrality (ironically on HBO) sums this up pretty nicely: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I have Comcast as well and it's gotten because of the deal Netflix struck with them... [LINK] EDIT: John Oliver also talks quite eloquently about this as well: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗John Oliver found a good way to explain it: [VIDEO] [LINK] The problem is that ISP shills that make these decisions don't care about public opposition. They aren't elected officials.
Read original comment ↗While we are on the topic, may I bring up John Oliver's June 1 2014 episode. [VIDEO] tl;dw - For those who want to understand how closely the government is related to those who benefit from NO net-neutrality.
Read original comment ↗I thought this was quite high, since the net neutrality issue had a lot of coverage in the media, see for example the two John Oliver talks about it: [VIDEO] [LINK]
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