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we have sarah morris. she is with the new america foundation. she is the head of congressional relations is also named sarah morris. she is a different person. we also have a partner at steptoe and johnson. we also have an assistant professor at the university of nebraska. we have a diverse set of speakers. we will get going quickly. if anybody has not heard about net neutrality, i do not think we need to go into too much detail on what it means. it is the idea that on the internet, consumers should access content and everyone should have their applications and services treated equally. how that happens and legal authority for that has been a tortured conversation since 2005. let me quickly say that the fcc had a vote on this. i will ask matt to tell us how we got here. we were here in january and it was after the d.c. circuit court struck down the previous plan for open internet. this is another crack at it. they are taking cues from the circuit court decision. the fcc chairman had a vote. two were in favor and one was concurring. we will ask g

we have sarah morris. she is with the new america she is the head of head ofional -- the congressional relations is also named sarah morris. she is a different person. we also have a partner at steptoe and johnson. we also have an assistant professor at the university of nebraska. we have a diverse set of speakers. we will get going quickly. if anybody has not heard about net neutrality, i do not think we need to go into too much detail on what it means. it is the idea that on the shouldt, consumers access content and everyone should have their applications and services treated equally. how that happens and legal authority for that has been a tortured conversation since 2005. me quickly say that the sec had a vote on this. i will ask matt to tell us how we got here. we were here in january and it was after the d c circuit court struck down the previous plan for open internet. this is another crack at it. they are taking cues from the circuit court decision will stop the fcc chairman had a vote. two were in

>> i'm sarah morris. i am the senior policy counsel for the open technology institute. we have been long-time advocates for open internet protection will stop i think those words will get misinterpreted and tossed around stop we, this with a strong concern that the internet is not just a platform for innovative business models. is a platform for innovation itself. and for unfettered communication access among users. at the commissioners pointed out, this is not just about companies. this is about consumers and users and their ability to participate. to answer your question about what this means for the future of the open internet and our general reaction, this rulemaking is quite comprehensive. forredicates the framework the new net neutrality rules on a legally shaky ground. the framework itself is difficult to apply in real life. it will not afford the same types of protections that we saw before. thinking pretty critically about what this means. there is a long way to go. >> thank you. as a communications lawyer, this nprm is a phenomenal document. it has everything

from the federal communications commission working with commissioner abernathy and then we have sarah morris who is with the new america foundation they are different people so keep that in mind this isn't the same. but we have a partner at johnson and gus hurdle if the professor at the university of nebraska college of law. a diverse set of speakers. if anybody hasn't heard about it or what it is i don't think we need to go into much detail but it's the idea everybody should have their applications into their services to be treated kind of equally and how that happens has been a torture so they laid out the plan yesterday on the notice of proposed rulemaking and i'm going to ask you to tell us how we got here and after the dc circuit court struck down the previous chairman this is like another crack taking cues from the decisions of chairman wheeler had a vote of 3-to order at least two of them in favor, one of them concurring in the two against. we are going to ask what happened now. so we have a context of understanding what the fcc did yesterday. it's a cynic so everyone knows e incoming