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Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 8.8M views · 2017-05-08 · 19:33

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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.

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HN points people to it as a good plain-language explanation of net neutrality during the 2017 FCC fight.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2017

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shmerl · 2017-11 · Recommendation

John Oliver found a good way to explain it: [LINK] [VIDEO] The problem is that ISP shills that make these decisions don't care about public opposition. They aren't elected officials.

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natejackdev · 2017-05 · Recommendation

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: [VIDEO]

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vmarquet · 2017-08 · Reference

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] [VIDEO]

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