the f.c.c. mr. pai is the current chairman and both have been nated for another term. mr. pai: i visited libraries in sioux falls, south dakota, i have seen how it's working and we want to extend that. mr. markey: you will commit to us you will preserve to the success of this bipartisan program and not decrease its funding level? problematic changes -- mr. pai: we have not made any decisions on that score. we're trying to make sure the program works. mr. markey: you won't make a commitment you won't reduce the funding? mr. pai: we're studying ways to improve -- mr. markey: ms. rosenworcel, will you do that? ms. rosenworcel: it is a successful one and i believe the changes put in place in 2015 have been successful. they have reached schools and students in every state across this country. mr. markey: mr. carr, will you commit you won't reduce the funding? mr. carr: i have an open mind as to what the budget and number should be. have to make a decision when the record is developed on it. mr. marke

i'm going to paddle back to the internet from the f.c.c. on july twelfth over forty thousand people organizations and websites like netflix and twitter will participate in a net neutrality day of action try to access those sites and you'll instead see a page with words like blocked or upgrade or the spinning wheel of death. not to be confused with the spinning wheel of death on the price is right. and which of you gets the wrong price for a container of dishwasher detergent they execute you. that's not your grandma's price is right tell you that much for more on this way turn to our senior internet expert now we go well thank you. that was. me and we're going to seems like you know the importance of the free and fair internet a lot more people will be aware of their leaving or twitter and affleck's are the only ones that matter what i mean but the others what i'm talking about is the rest of the websites participating in this blackout one of those being ok cupid which i can assure you from personal experience deserves to be run at lower spe

the f.c.c. has already helped pave the way for this merger by reinstating the so-called u.h.f. discount that enables tv companies to get bigger. sinclair now requires all their local stations to air video commentary pieces by a former trump administration staffer who generally supports the trump administration. sinclair's c.e.o. has also been quite complimentary of you personally. the contrasting approach here creates the very real perception that the trump administration would act to reward friendly coverage and punish negative coverage. so in light of the development since march, i'd like to seek renewed answers from you on two questions i posed in march. first, will you reassure us that you will exercise your authority as chairman of the f.c.c. to regulate the media in an impartial manner? mr. pai: yes, senator. senator udall: thank you. have you had any communications with the white house directly or through an intermediary regarding any media regulatory issues since march? mr. pai: senator,

for coming up in two weeks f.c.c. increases risk assessment of uncontrollable free and fair internet to severe. and one week from now. pentagon announces a more brave patriotic young people joining military for brave patriotic health care. that's our show but i interview my friend jimmy durante her dad to deny the i.p.t. last night you walked out to you tube dot com sites redacted tonight until next time goodnight. but. i think though she is with the palestinians under oficial and non-official it's for hundreds and thousands of years what i have seen is that by the syrian state go she eighteen. or nothing. kind of hope to you every time that we reach a juncture in which there was a possibility the result because. the palestinians just walked away. let us hope. thousands are protesting in london to denounce the u.k.'s coalition government and demand prime minister to resign may step down under the rally cry not one day. it's white thing between so many so many people the all the see it's becoming increasingly more effi

if trump's f.c.c. gets its way, a handful of big broadband companies will serve as gatekeepers to the internet. we cannot let this happen, and that's why millions of americans are standing up and making had sure that their voices are heard at the federal communications commission. they know that the internet, the world's greatest platform for commerce and communications is at stake. it's net neutrality that ensures that those with the best ideas, not merely the best access, can thrive in the 21st century economy, that a garage startup in moldon, massachusetts, can have the same online reach and scope as a major tech firm in silicon valley. it's net neutrality that has made the internet an innovation incubator and job generator for the entire nation, and it's net neutrality that has been the reason for -- consider today essentially every company is an internet company. in 2016 almost half of the venture capital funds invested in the united states went towards internet-specific and software companies. th

the f.c.c.'s attorney general is signing on to the deal. >> trying to figure all these people getting my number. tom: every single person we approached told us they get robo calls. >> countless numbers of times over the past week. >> the calls often look like they're coming from a number that they're not actually coming from. they play a recording. >> the investigation department of the i.r.s. >> oh, i'm so sorry about that. i was having a little problem with my head set. >> i try to block as many as i can. it just doesn't work out. >> believe it or not there are rules blocking phone companies from blocking many of these calls. the f.c.c. is considering changing those rules and now an attorney general brian frost just added his signature to a letter urging the f.c.c. to do so. 28 other states are joining him. >> would you like to see them do something to try to make it easier for phone companys? >> absolutely, yes. >> the letter says arizona's attorney general received 117 phone scam complaints

those same companies are actually fans of the f.c.c. is net neutrality rules in the first place and according to the report in twenty sixteen the united states government sent at least forty nine thousand eight hundred and sixty eight requests to facebook for user data in the same time period it sent twenty seven over twenty seven thousand requests to google and over nine thousand to apple and these companies are alone where users see new communities to communicate and store data. law enforcement agencies see new avenues for surveillance but while some companies are looking out for consumers when it comes to handing over their data to the government others seem to be playing both sides of this debate the e.f.-s. report for its three safeguards in place to keep your data from ending up in government databases they are technology law and corporate policies now this report focuses on law and corporate policy the criteria they use covers five major areas in internet privacy first does the company follow industry wide best practices such as

caught up with gloria tristan inas the former f.c.c. commissioner roger bill clinton and she talked about why the internet and net neutrality is so important take a listen. internet has become integral to everything we do and whether it's to communicate with our congressmen or city government whether it's to get government benefits whether it's to organize to knock out the that's become the modern public square i mean i used to go to that and we still do that in the square to please be sure the public square is now being. couldn't couldn't agree with the former of so you see the commissioner more and i think that's where the heart of this issue really lives is that the internet should be that last bastion of freedom now that that last frontier that we have we can't show any further out west. you know the internet needs to be that last bastion of free thought free enterprise all of these things and you know the telecoms are arguing and hollering and saying oh you know this is and this isn't what you think it is we will maintain net neutr

scope of basically given the works of twitter kind of the f.c.c. off right yes ok so the f.c.c. with will probably end up drawing the ire of sites like netflix and twitter because they are joining over forty thousand other sites and organizations and people in aid net neutrality day of action that's taking place on july twelfth and so all of these sites are agreeing to basically do like an internet blackout sort of similar to the one for the sopa back in two thousand and twelve where all the sites on the front page will have things that say blocked or upgrade or it will be that spinning wheel of death that everybody enjoys. so obviously it's to draw attention to f.c.c. is attempt to get net neutrality and to. prioritize the basically highlight that getting that neutrality gives priority to like big telecoms and corporation. has it been on the trail the story for a while is this all in vain i mean the way it kind of read to me in the stores is like well we're going to take your letters for the next month or so and we're already much moving forward and our voice of what are. espec

neutrality just doesn't really make any sense other than it's another opportunity for the f.c.c. to try to regulate. the internet as if it was a utility which it is not because it's not vital to american safety ok i think you're misunderstanding net neutrality but no i'm not you know so so you're going to be fine when when your internet service provider with comcast or whoever you get your name from comes to you and says hey we've got a new plan we're going to do the internet just like we do cable t.v. you want to make basic packages fifty bucks a month you want you want to new services that's an extra ten dollars a month all you want to use you tube that's going to be ten dollars a month you're using streaming video that will be fifteen dollars a month on top that you want to download porno that's twenty five marks you know if you're going to have a competitive service it would be easier for a competitive service to come out and then give the people what they want problem which is just like with water just like a lecture in a city to have only people have one internet connection

and that was the basis of f.c.c.'s decision to preserve net neutrality back in 2015. now, of course, conservative and industry interests see an opportunity to roll back these protections, and that free access to a free and open internet in order to favor powerful corporations seems to be what they want. president trump's appointee to the f.c.c., chairman a.g.pye, has already undertaken several actions to undercut fair internet access. in his fairs two weeks on the job, chairman pye stopped nine companies from providing discounted high-speed internet to low-income individuals, and he jammed through nearly a dozen industry-backed actions, including some to begin curtailing net neutrality. once again, this administration favors the big, wealthy, special corporate interests over the average american. the american people should realize that is what the trump administration is doing time and time again. they talk like they are for working people, but when it comes to actions like this one on net neutrality, they favor the big special interests. that, mr. and mrs. american c

is why you'll see many is xeni a lot in the streets and online this twelfth of july protesting the f.c.c. and u.s. governments recent push to roll back the rules of met. and the. you know a c. and b. c. and other news outlets are reporting anywhere from fifty to eighty thousand websites are protesting f.c.c. chairman pi's move to dismantle the regulations put in place under the obama administration that force internet service providers to treat all internet traffic equal or as a libya salon writes in the guardian whether that's an e-mail from your mother an episode of house of cards on netflix or a bank transfer of means that cable i a species i has presents as comcast a.t.m. t. or verizon don't get to choose which data is more quickly and which sites get blocked or throttled based on which content providers pay a premium the forty four year old pi clearly not as evil but definitely a government bureaucrat and more importantly former lawyer for telecom giant horizon is strongly against the regulations and has called the concerns that inspired them hypothetical harms and hysterical prophe

is why you'll see many is xenia law in the streets and online this twelfth of july protesting the f.c.c. and us governments recent push to roll back the rules of met. and the. as c.m. b.c. and other news outlets are reporting anywhere from fifty to eighty thousand websites are protesting f.c.c. chairman pi's move to dismantle the regulations put in place under the obama administration that force internet service providers to treat all internet traffic equal or as a libya salon writes in the guardian whether that's an email from your mother an episode of house of cards on netflix or a.

people in the f.c.c. has not changed their guidelines those guidelines are twenty years old they were set in one thousand nine hundred six based on exposure from one device so we don't even have any standards at all these are just guidelines and we certainly don't have anything that represents how we use technology today one device is what our standards are guidelines represent how does that compare to a classroom of thirty students who are all thirty students have a cell phone and all thirty students are using some sort of a tablet or and a laptop and then you've got access points up on the ceiling you might have a cell tower outside your school you might have smart meters on the wall we don't have any regulation around that and we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation right now we're outside the f.c.c. building in washington d.c. . and the reason we're here is that they're about to have an open meeting about five g. . basically they're kind of deliberating about how to ma

going to paddle back to the internet from the f.c.c. on july twelfth over forty thousand people organizations and websites like netflix and twitter will participate in a net neutrality day of action try to access those sites and you'll instead see a page with words like blocked or upgrade or the spinning wheel of death. not to be confused with the spinning wheel of death on the price is right. and which of you guessed the wrong price for a container of dishwasher detergent they execute you. that's not your grandma's price is right tell you that much for more on this way turn to our senior internet expert now we go. oh that was struck me when i was going to fight it seems like you know the importance of the free and fair internet a lot more people will be aware of a feeling or twitter in netflix are the only ones that matter what i mean but the others what i'm talking about is the rest of the websites participating in. blackout one of those being ok cupid which i can assure you from personal experience deserves to be run at lower speeds.

then after coming up in two weeks f.c.c. increases risk assessment of uncontrollable free and fair internet to severe. and one week from now pentagon announces of more brave patriotic young people joining military for brave patriotic health care. that charge still but i interview my friend give me your under jacket the night the i.p.t. last night you walked out a you tube dot com site redacted tonight until next time good night. yes i thank you. larry you are watching r t m our question for. your launching an r t america special report. this. me is one of. basically everything that you think you know about civil society have broken down and. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not be the size of the allies saying. we don't need people that think like bush on a plane. this is an incredibly tense situation. that. we. are. trying to maintain is in moscow for a two day official visit comes amid based in strained relations with washington which is accused of military provocation in the s

law but they said we are ahead of the f.c.c. we're innovators they then went to back and they changed the law to fit what they were doing on wall street asteroid blancpain as jamie dimon they changed a lot of fit what they did already on wall street remember when citibank bought travelers insurance that was a violation of the law that precluded under glass steagall this type of combination but what the citibank management did was convince the government to change the law so the initial point offering is got a lot of heat and people are saying you're not complied with as you see law that's right the f.c.c. needs to get these to get it with it they need to change the laws and that's what the i.c.a.o. market's doing that's what good court is doing that's why these critics of the critic weigh in in a saying oh you have the government going to way to know if you have the market you change the law exactly but i do think a lot of these i suppose will end up being scams and everybody will lose their of their money. but what this guy is

cuts and in fact former f.c.c. chair under clinton gloria she was on the hill today to kind of put in her own words why the fight for net neutrality is a fight for basic rights really in the modern age. the internet has become integral to everything we do and whether it's to communicate with our congressmen or our city government whether it's to get government benefits whether it's to organize you cannot do it. it has become the modern public square we were used to go to that we still do go to the squares to let our voices be heard the public square is now. considering comcast for example is often rated americans that most hated company at work who are comcast would not be a company americans want making decisions about their internet absolutely not so let's talk about lawmakers. interesting situation with them always very partisan issue with them on capitol hill what are they saying about this issue well senator ron wyden for example democrat from oregon has come out swinging very vocal proponent of net neutrality

websites including amazon netflix yes even pornhub will participate in a day of action to protest the f.c.c. is plan to scrap net neutrality a legal principle of bans internet service providers like comcast from creating pay to play fast lanes or blocking content they don't like at the f.c.c. gets its way americans america's internet is going to look a lot like china's but instead of the government blocking websites it'll be corporations doing it not for politics but for profit americans really going to fund that. i actually admit when i'm wrong and you know i think when we first started discussing this over a year ago on your show i was originally in favor of the companies having the right to sell whatever product i think i've switched my mind on this and i would happen to think the arguments have been really persuasive on the other side to keep well and i'm impressed so what well let's get doug in here the first of all very impressed i mean you know it's one thing for anybody to take a side and just stick with it no matter what but to say wait a minute i was wrong. i agree with you by the

now we're seeing more and more governments and businesses eyeing the cryptocurrency is in fact the f.c.c. is warning that a lot of the operations can start falling under federal security laws they're looking at ways to be able. to regulate this which i think is something that the early people in this industry didn't want do you think that it pulls big point away from this original idea that they had of it being a free currency. well no in a sense because to be honest that the report has nothing to do with bitcoin that has to do with these digital tokens which kind of it gets a bit technical but they're not the same is true crypto currencies like corner theory i'm a while back the commodity futures trading commission ruled that bitcoin is a commodity as indeed it is it's a form of commodity money like gold it's kind of a digital gold there are these other things that are a kind of a newer aspect of the crypto currency and blocks and ecosystem these things called tokens that tend to exist on top of coin or theory. and they can be classified as securities because of how they're issued in th

and other firms holding fast to the opposition of the changes to the f.c.c. net neutrality rules.n the u.s. it prevents service providerfrom slowing down, charging more for displayed faster. a cause that h.b.o. john oliver has been fighting for, for years. >> every sub culture must join us. youtube celebrities, instagram models. weneed all of you. even if trump's fans. the most powerful trolls of all. >> it's if internet wide day of action. the landing pages with alerts, warning and videos urging the public to oppose the overturn of the f.c.c. 2015 rules. big companies could pay to increase fast lanes and low lanes in place for everybody else. >> it allows those of us to go online to go where we want and do what we want to do without interference. not just a left/right issue. it's not this democrats favor net neutrality and republicans oppose it. >> the public has until mid-august to have the choices heard before the final vote. abc news, new york. jonathan: now at 6:00 -- the a.t.v. rider that now faces years behind bars. michelle: and desperate measures, begging people in d.c. t

the f.c.c.'s current proposals roll back these freedoms for the benefit and profit of big internet service providers on the backs of students, entrepreneurs and innovators, small businesses and really all of us. millions across the country have already sent in comments to the f.c.c. expressing their strong opposition and on today's net neutrality day of action, i encourage everyone to make their voices heard. in just five days, the f.c.c.'s public comment period closes. now is the time for us to raise our voices, to protect net neutrality, fairness and equality for all. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. smith: mr. speaker, a recent "politico" poll shows that 60% of registered voters support, quote, new guidelines which say visa applicants from six predominantly muslim countries must prove a close family relationship with a u.s.

the f.c.c. went africom cast for going against these principles, only to get struck down by the d.c. circuit where bad administrative law goes to die. in 2010 the f.c.c. adopted and open internet order. verizon wireless sued the commission, again. commission lost at the d.c. circuit. by now there must be legally wrong with the f.c.c.'s net neutrality regulation. and that's exactly right. under the u.s. constitution, only congress can give a specific power to an executive agency like the f.c.c. and usually through statute. but here's the kicker. the f.c.c. claimed congress gave them power to regulate the internet through the communications act of 1934. the observant reader will notice this law was passed a long time before the internet existed. the act did give the f.c.c. power to regulate common carriers like radio, wire communication, telephone companies, but not the internet. not only does net neutrality follow the new deal's progressive, socialist formula, it literally derives its power from

so this is one of the reasons why crushing net neutrality is something the f.c.c. and wall street are drooling over right now which which is which reminds me if you want to save the internet you got a month left to right get. back. home god can you imagine the number of americans right now who are like. want to save you. gotta watch house of cards on netflix right now i just don't have the time that yet and yet. right now the amounts of money being thrown around a wall street are bigger than they've ever been there's a massive auto loan bubble a huge student debt bubble and others and when they burst in a thousand pieces it will result in a lot of people going broke and mcdonald's. grid suddenly becoming a delicacy. said asked after the auto bubble burst that mcgriff is going to be a form of currency it will do you can pay for things with a fistful of mc ribs and say it's love in its day is coming. how is everybody talking about wall street right now the five richest man has the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the world three point seven billion people

are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation right now we're outside the f.c.c. building in washington d.c. . and the reason we're here is that they're about to have an open meeting about five g. and. basically they're kind of deliberating about how to make it as. easy and painless as possible for the telecom industry to install hundreds of thousands of mini cell towers one for every other house everywhere with no restrictions about where they. are basically turning like what is already a health crisis into just a health nightmare we want to acknowledge and we just want to say. there are too many people that can no longer continue with their profession because they're just still unfortunately there is no known treatment that is guaranteed to work there is also very limited evidence for a blood test that would give you diagnosis of elect representatives our federal government as totally shut down all funding for this kind of research and that's been the case for what twenty years why there is no funding for a variety of reasons. we have a very aggressive telecomm

illicit profits yeah i mean my attorneys we resubmitted you know a number of doctoring documents in the f.c.c. . and from my understanding. is working on this so is the department of justice. and i can't go into too much detail into it it's an ongoing investigation but the situation that just b.c. isn't over and i'm not letting this go i mean you know and you have to stand that for instance i had somebody tell me like you know ever it it's over with already you just walk away and you know you've become successful i guess as a result you know even though i lost everything that i built myself up but. and what people don't understand is that if they saw what i saw there they would not be giving up you know either i mean i mean i can't give up on this because i'm telling you that you know wars cost money and in the end right now. because they're getting the enemy is getting financed with a lot of money right now a lot and just for the drug cartels and you know it's disgusting that here in this is occurring we're allowing this in the united states and what i find interesting is that you know that