Sep 4, 2018
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Transcript:
Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 09/04/2018
The Stats On Net Neutrality Are Out - We Are All Winning
Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, Craig Peterson here. You guys remember the whole quote, debate, unquote, about net neutrality? I never thought there was a debate here. There was no sense in this whole idea of net neutrality. It just when you played it out, it was absolutely ridiculous. So any how we got some stats, some hard numbers, what has happened since the end of net neutrality, and that's where I talked about this morning with Jim. So here we go.
0:30
He is the man. He is our tech talk guru. And he's our good friend.
I'm talking about Craig Peterson. Got some important stuff to
discuss today. Good morning, sir. How are you? Hey,
0:44
Good morning, Jim. Doing well this morning. You know, it's almost
the end of the heat wave like this. And they get good again. Yeah,
that
0:52
for a Canadian? Yes, absolutely. For Canadian. This is heatstroke.
weather. So,
1:00
you know, I'm an American now, right?
1:03
Oh, no, no, no, no, I know that. I meant more like, you know, like,
we, which we're very happy about that you did, because you're a
wonderful addition to the country. I just met, like, you know,
being a Canadian coming from Canada being raised. They're not
necessarily the customs. I'm talking about the climate
1:23
and all that. Yeah. Yeah, like a please. You know, like half an
hour of sunlight a day. You know, all that stuff. That's it. Well,
actually, now, were you not where you came from? But, you know,
1:38
yeah, well, in the summertime, the sun never actually quite set. It
was worse. It was Twilight though. And my daughter's in worse
shape. Right now. She's up in Norway. And she's saying that the
days are already getting cold. It's below freezing.
1:54
Yeah, that's, it's nice to go there in the summer.
2:00
If you wanted to come visit, I'm not so sure.
2:04
You just tell her dad. He's got a big new contract. He's working on
me. Can't I'll be there. I'll be there in June.
2:13
Exactly.
2:15
Well, we need your help today. Because two things have come up net
neutrality and an actual increase in internet speed ranking. So in
the US. So remember, we I think we just need a refresher on what
net neutrality was. And now we were told that the sky would fall if
net neutrality went away. It did go away and the sky hasn't fallen.
So could you lay it out for me, please?
2:46
Sure. Absolutely. I had a request to do exactly that. Another
station and another station today, Craig, can you come on, I want
you to take net neutrality from both sides. I want you to be
productive neutrality and anti net neutrality. And I said, you
know, I'm not sure I can take the pro side. But I can tell you what
they're saying. And what they were saying, Jim, was that we need a
way for the government to regulate the internet very, very closely.
We need to make sure that the federal government has control over
everything that's online, so that we can enforce free speech
rights. But you know, more burden than ever, what we need to do is
make sure that these big bad evil companies are not over charging
their constituents never word your your internet service provider,
whether it be you know, Comcast or whoever it might be even your
phone provider, make sure that they have to obey the same rules
that were put in place in the 1930s on top of the telephone
companies. So that's what they were doing. They said, if we don't
have net neutrality, everything's going to fall apart, the speeds
are going to slow down and people going to get charged way more is
just going to be a terrible, horrific thing. Of course, this was
during the Obama administration. And they didn't bother mentioning
that, in fact, the internet and it survive just fine without the
FCC regulating it for more than 20 years. He back the internet
internet had grown immensely over that time.
4:26
So it's this big monster.
4:30
Yeah, we need control over and you know, what I get concerned about
right now is we've got the right wing voices and libertarian
voices, basically everything except for socialist, slash communist,
socialist, fascist voices, all of the other voices out there are
getting squashed. And I'm getting concerned. Because we have a lot
of people who are saying, whoa, wait a minute. Now, we need to
regulate the internet. And the voices that are saying that today
are tend to be on the right hand side of the aisle, the left hand
side,
5:03
which is a flip,
5:05
yeah, it's a big flip. And, and I'm kind of wondering if this isn't
the manipulation. But I was against to the whole idea of so called
net neutrality, because here's, here's the bottom line problem.
You've got some kid sitting in the basement of his mom's house,
like the typical picture, right. And he's sitting there playing
these streaming video games with a dozen of his closest friends
around the world. He's got Netflix movie playing over here, and
he's got his streaming music playing over there. And he's just
using bandwidth coming out of the kazoo. And the people who are pro
net battle net neutrality were saying, Hey, listen, he shouldn't
have to pay more than the grandmother next door who's living off of
social security and all she's looking for is a nice little picture
of the great grand kids or grandkids to come in on a piece of
email. So in their mind those were equivalent in their mind Netflix
which uses more than half of all of the Internet bandwidth in this
country that Netflix we should be paying the same and should not be
charged by the backbone providers any more than your local soccer
team was in the gym? Yeah,
6:23
because they were vacuuming it up
6:28
exactly and why would they have to be responsible for why would
someone that pain Netflix to watch movies Why would they have to
pay more if they have a plane movies all day long and someone that
never opens a movie never streams video right it was insanity so I
was absolutely against it. And I told everybody about it on my show
on your show and they listen this is this is just stupid. And worst
of all, what it's going to do is it's going to stop expansion the
growth we had seen on the internets going to stop because you had
to go to the FCC and kiss the ring, pardon me,
7:10
and and say, Hey, listen, I have a whole new model for doing
business. And in fact, the very first case that was brought in
front of the FCC for for arbitration was a company that wanted to
give free streaming movies to people. And the FCC said, No, you
can't do that. Because, you know, lines and isn't doing that. And
it just wouldn't be fair to these other companies out there if you
give stuff away for free. So under Obama's net neutrality rules,
they were stopping us from getting free stuff. So it's it's
absolutely wonderful now that President Trump put in a new chairman
for the FCC, whose life has been threatened, whose children's
arrives had been threatened by apparently left wingers because he
did the see it's crazy. He now has armed security guards, but the
new chairman of the FCC got rid of his net neutrality rules. And
the beauty of this gym is exactly what I predicted would happen did
happen. And that is the companies started to invest in the internet
again, because they realize they could charge people based on what
they were using. So now they could afford to improve the internet.
It's like them well, maybe it's not like the mass pike. But you
know, with a pipe if you use it more, you pay more
8:39
Yeah. And and they can, of course, do the repairs and make the
better roads to handle the trucks, etc, etc. Right. So now the
internet we have doubled in our position here. And since the end of
net neutrality, the United States average internet speed has gone
from in the world to six in the world. See, that's impossible,
because the liberals are telling us that wasn't gonna happen. No,
it's gonna get worse. Yeah, that's
9:08
it. That's impossible. You're lying. You're lying.
9:14
I have this stat you go online, you can see it right there. We've
got some tweets that people will put the now basically say almost
the same thing. But it's showing a dramatic increase. In fact, my I
switched my carrier, my telephone carrier over and the for the
first time in like almost 30 years, I got cell service 25 years
ago. And I stuck with the same company the whole time and I just
switched over because I found another carrier now that's given me
twice the speed for half the cost under net neutrality they would
have had to go to the FCC they would have had to beg permission to
charge less and deliver more thank goodness it didn't happen and I
morning the conservatives and out there don't to fall for the trap
here of trying to regulate the internet in order to stop these left
wingers from blocking free speech because if they will get what
they want, and they will get all of this regulation and we'll go
back to some of the insanity that we had in the 80s and 90s with
the so called fairness doctrine that just backfired on everybody so
it's gone thank goodness things are getting better dairy is
10:30
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anything and he will protect you, Craig. Always a pleasure. That
was an excellent explanation and vindication of really a position
you took quite a while ago. Oh, yes. Oh, thanks. Yeah, thanks,
Craig. All right. Don't go anywhere.
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