Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points people to it as a good plain-language explanation of net neutrality during the 2017 FCC fight.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2017 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Recommends natejackdev · 2017-05 · on “Save the Internet Net Neutrality is under attack”
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]
Recommends shmerl · 2017-11 · on “FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see”
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.
Cites takeda · 2017-05 · on “Net neutrality is in jeopardy again”
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
Cites tomokasa · 2017-05 · on “FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality”
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
Cites kradem · 2017-06 · on “John Oliver is wrong about Net Neutrality”
Well that's quite a sublimal message as Mr. Oliver mentioned them before driving you to joyride: [this video]
Cites vmarquet · 2017-08 · on “72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is”
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]