LastWeekTonight
2 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2017
19:33 · 8.8M views · May 8, 2017
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on net neutrality, explaining the stakes of the FCC's push to roll back the rules and urging viewers to file comments. It is a comedic but substantive explainer.
HN points people to it as a good plain-language explanation of net neutrality during the 2017 FCC fight.
6 comments from Hacker News
The FCC Chairmen wants to get rid of net neutrality the only thing keeping the internet open and free. He doesn't apparently have the same idea. Here is a video to explain everything: this video
John Oliver found a good way to explain it: [LINK] this video The problem is that ISP shills that make these decisions don't care about public opposition. They aren't elected officials.
Looking what you write, I think you misunderstand what NN does. The monopolies you mentioned have very little to do with NN. Someone already gave example how Facebook replaced MySpace, similarly Google, replaced Yahoo, AltaVista etc, I suppose Amazon did not replace anything, but started e-commerce (and currently creating other markets, like cloud computing), but it is getting higher and higher competition. Apple and Microsoft existed before Internet and are just using their old position to leverage their existence, but the fact they face competition. > EDIT: another question :) If net-neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with the tech monopolies maintaining their power position then why do they all support it? [ [LINK] ] Simple, because it expands powers of existing monopolies making them relevant. Perfect example is Netflix. They providing service to stream movies. They pay also pay large amounts of money for Internet access and ability to send content to their users. On the other side users similarly are paying for Internet access to be able to receive the content. You would think it's double paying (and it kind of is), but it's normal, why users should subsidize Netflix costs or why Netflix should pay for users' access (since they are not only using Netflix) they just pay for their access to the network. But, regional ISPs (in this case Comcast) started having "problems" where packets from Netflix were dropped, because "Netflix was sending too much data to them", ignor
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: [LINK] this video
Did someone happen to save the John Oliver original video? It shows "This video is not available" for me. this video EDIT: was blocked in Canada, thanks NegatioN