Hank asks viewers to comment to the FCC asking it to classify broadband internet as a common carrier service (2014)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2015-03-06) · owner: Hank
In May 2014 Hank asked viewers to comment on the FCC's website asking it to classify broadband as a common carrier service. In March 2015 he reported that the internet had been reclassified as a public utility and new FCC rules guaranteed net neutrality.
Told alongside: Hank asks viewers to support organizations working on net neutrality with money, time and action (2014) · Hank asks viewers to call their members of Congress about net neutrality (2014)
About: Federal Communications Commission, common carrier, Net neutrality
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | asked | Hank asks viewers to comment on the FCC website, linked in the description, telling it to classify broadband as a common carrier service. | Hank vs. Hank: The Net Neutrality Debate in 3 Minutes 00:03:06 |
| 2015-03-06 | result reported | Hank reports that the internet in the US has been reclassified as a public utility, giving the government the power to keep it neutral, and new FCC rules guarantee it will. | WE WON! Net Neutrality and Re-Thinking Cynicism 00:02:03 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2014-05-02 · Hank vs. Hank: The Net Neutrality Debate in 3 Minutes — ask: Hank notes that a comment to the FCC goes into the public record, so commenters must give their real name and address; viewers can also email the FCC directly. — video description
- 2014-05-02 · Hank vs. Hank: The Net Neutrality Debate in 3 Minutes — ask: Hank asks viewers to comment on the FCC website, which is asking for comments, telling it to classify broadband internet as a common carrier service so telecoms cannot close the internet. — 00:03:06
- 2015-03-06 · WE WON! Net Neutrality and Re-Thinking Cynicism — Hank says net neutrality's supporters are mostly ordinary people, who often feel they have little influence on how the American government is run. — 00:01:02
- 2015-03-06 · WE WON! Net Neutrality and Re-Thinking Cynicism — Hank says net neutrality is technologically and legally complicated and easily framed as big government regulating the internet, but the regulation is of the companies that deliver the internet. — 00:01:13
- 2015-03-06 · WE WON! Net Neutrality and Re-Thinking Cynicism — Hank notes that Tom Wheeler of the FCC used to work for the cable industry, which hates net neutrality. — 00:01:49
- 2015-03-06 · WE WON! Net Neutrality and Re-Thinking Cynicism — Hank says most individual people don't care about net neutrality and don't even know what it is. — 00:01:54
- 2015-03-06 · WE WON! Net Neutrality and Re-Thinking Cynicism — Hank says practically all the money spent by lobbyists went to lobbying for the destruction of net neutrality. — 00:01:57