LastWeekTonight
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13:18 · 17M views · Jun 2, 2014
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.
HN commenters use it as the go-to funny, accessible explanation of net neutrality and credit it with driving public comments to the FCC.
9 comments from Hacker News
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: this video
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) this video
In case you haven't seen John Oliver's take on Net Neutrality, this video is 13 minutes well spent: this video "Tom Wheeler is [like] a dingo"
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: this video
While we are on the topic, may I bring up John Oliver's June 1 2014 episode. this video tl;dw - For those who want to understand how closely the government is related to those who benefit from NO net-neutrality.