Ask Noah Show 360 | Net Neutrality with Senator Kevin Cramer

This week Senator Kevin Cramer joins The Ask Noah Show and we discuss net neutrality! It's a more complicated and nuanced issue than most people give it credit for. Our access to the internet these days is like running water.

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01:50 Senator Kevin Cramer Interview

• Common Carrier - treat all traffic equally
• Net Neutrality - ISPs must treat all traffic equally

• History

  • 1934 Title 2
  • 1980 Computer 2 Policy
  • 2002 Cable Broadband gets an exemption
  • 2005 All ISPs ARE NOT common carrier
  • 2015 ISPs ARE Common Carrier (Gov Take Over)
  • 2017 Ajit Pai repeals net neutrality

• If the infrastructure has been subsidized by tax dollars, should that infrastructure be common carrier?

• Would it make more sense for this to be under the FTC rather than the FCC?

• What would you say to people who only have one good choice for internet?

• Ma Bell Sweet Heart deal

• Chevron doctrine

• Openness principles

  • throttling
  • blocking
  • price discrimination

• Blocking World of War Craft

• ISP deals with apartment complexes to block other providers

• Digital divide

• Universal Service Funds

• ISPs are independent businesses

• What stops companies from putting smaller players in the "slow lane"

• Bot Question - Also, aren't the ISP's notorious for promising expanding broadband in the past, but they deem arbitrary numbers as "enough" for consumers, yet countries like Sweden & South Korea are thriving with broadband putting the US to shame.

• What impact if any do you believe net neutrality would have on ISP competition?

• Do you think the Communications Act needs a complete overhaul to bring it in line with today's technology?

• Should the federal or state government step in to break up local monopolies that are not serving their customers well?

42:00 Expand pfSense VLAN? - John

• PFSense "automatic fix"
• Subnet masking
• check for a /24
• reboot networking devices

47:38 Virtual pfSense? - Rhett

• This works!
• Steve did this for years
• VHost goes down, internet goes down

49:26 Thoughts on Emergency Alerts - Chris

• Third party service
• Gov Regulated Service
• There is no other option

51:20 News Wire

• Samba 4.19.2 - Samba.org

• Geany 2.0 - Geany

• Peazip 9.5 - Peazip

• Ardour 8.1 - Ardour

• Virtualbox 7.0.12 - OMG Ubuntu

• Firefox 119 - Mozilla

• Moonlight 5.0 - GitHub

• Real Time LInux RISC-V - Phoronix

• Removing Qlogic 10GBE Support - Phoronix

• Blackcat using Munchkin Linux VM - Bleeping Computer

• TensorRT-LLM - EE Times

• LLEMMA a LLM for Math - Venture Beat

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