thank you to michael beckerman. we appreciate it. bloomberg "west.""ill be right back. ♪ >> this is bloomberg "west." if sony finally making a comeback? $75 million in the luminary results. joining us via skype is the chief technology officer. i look at the turn around failing at ibm and hewlett-packard, and then i think there is no way japanese sony can turn things around. they are turning it around. >> yes, they are. a strong dollar helps. definitely some currency effect in the numbers, but when you dig underneath what you see is a shift of 900,000 for more ps4's. they double the number of subscriptions to their network services which are people playing the games, and they also stalled over 20% improvement in the phone business. that is more bad news for samsung because they are going after the premium android space. bottom line they got out of the pc business last year and got focused and started to see results. currencies help. >> it is hard to say how much the currency helps. who cares? what they sell and the fact that they are selling more of it

here is michael beckerman. what he is done here by reclassifying service providers as common carriers and title two regulations is the big >> change. no throttling of legal content. wireless networks would be covered. at the same time says it would be like touch regulation. they would not have tarri there wouldf still bes investment. >> what if this make up fantasy cable company aquires lyft and slows down all of the uber requests and the uber business disappears and slivet the only thing left for your ride? >> under net neutrality that would be prevented and competition is what is allowed the internet to flourish. you have companies like lyft and uber. the isp should not decide who wins and who loses. >> netflix shares sold off with this news. i wonder if it is because people say these guys have open themselves up to more competition. why do the big companies support the open internet when they are the ones who have the advantage because they can build their own networks like google has or apple and they can d

here is a big tech lobbyist, internet association ceo michael beckerman. >> what we asked for is that there is no blocking, so any website you want to visit, as long as it is legal, you can get there. there is no throttling, meaning that your cable company can't degrade some of the content of the video site you want to visit. there is no discrimination. at the end of the day, internet users should be able to access whatever website they want and internet start-ups should be able to reach their customers. >> i always use the examples of uber and lyft. they are both supporting the internet association. wheat if this make-up fantasy cable company, mr. byrn's cable acquires lyft and suddenly slows down all of the uber requests and the uber business disappears and lyft is the only option for a ride and they can't get to customers as quickly as everybody else? >> yeah, under net neutrality that would be prevented and competition is what is allowed the internet to flourish and become what it is today. you have companies like lyft and uber that can compete. the isp should not decide who wins

before we start the first panel, i am pleased to turn the mic over to michael beckerman from the internet association. michael. >> thank you. thanks to the harvard institute of politics for partnering with us. we are going to ask the question will the government break the internet? i agree with you. i hope the answer is, no. the policy issues were going to talk about today, interim governance, net neutrality these are important to the future of the internet and the internet users and companies around the world. these are important issues that voters care about, we're looking forward to a great conversation. thank you for taking the time to moderate. >> pleasure. i am going to take off the introducers have to put on the moderators hat. i'm going to get into the middle of the well. [laughter] this is where we need to jeopardy music or something. let's see if this will work. all right. hello, everybody. as you may have noticed, i have called this panel. this is a roundtable that has right angles. if i do my calculations right with approximately 25 people on the panel and roughly 85 minutes t

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if i were to use personal information to target michael beckerman for an ad based on clicks and the millionsof impressions that we need for advertisers, it would not be successful strategy. so aggregating all of the information laurent was talking about and all of the information about user behavior to serve them targeting advertising is i think something that a lot of the companies around the table do, but one of the things that we try to do in a reasonable way is give transparency to our users and choices about whether or not they want to be targeted. you have got an opportunity to opt out of that kind of data collection and targeting. and i think that there is always a balance in our industry -- >> i hear you -- >> -- between privacy and free internet. >> let me stop you there. let me see if we can make it a viral sensation by turning to margaret. same idea here? >> margaret with yahoo!. we are a company that provides -- we are trying to meet users' daily habits every day with weather, sports, finance e-mail. plus one, absolutely to the comments. the other thing you are starting to see a

before we start the first panel, i am pleased to turn the mic over to michael beckerman from the internetssociation. michael. >> thank you. thanks to the harvard institute of politics for partnering with us. we are going to ask the question will the government break the internet? i agree with you. i hope the answer is, no. the policy issues were going to talk about today, interim governance, net neutrality these are important to the future of the internet and the internet users and companies around the world. these are important issues that voters care about, we're looking forward to a great conversation. thank you for taking the time to moderate. >> pleasure. i am going to take off the introducers have to put on the moderators hat. i'm going to get into the middle of the well. [laughter] this is where we need to jeopardy music or something. let's see if this will work. all right. hello, everybody. as you may have noticed, i have called this panel. this is a roundtable that has right angles. if i do my calculations right with approximately 25 people on the panel and roughly 85 minutes to