[Applause]
[Music]
so who here has heard of Edward Snowden
before the infamous former CIA agent
that revealed information heavy
information on that on the NSA to
WikiLeaks back in 2013 some regard
Edward Snowden as a hero to the American
people some regard him as a traitor but
in the end he changed the world with
what he revealed but what if I told you
that in two years time another
individual released more information on
a different government agency but this
time no one can see it
what if only the government can see it
or even worse what if the government
also couldn’t see it
hi my name is ko Hassan I’ll be talking
about net neutrality and why your
freedom on the Internet is at risk
so before I moved to Thailand I lived in
the United States and and like any US
citizen would know there were ISPs or
Internet service providers to choose
from for your internet access there was
Comcast Verizon Wireless AT&T Time
Warner Cable my family unfortunately
chose Comcast and it was the greatest
well to say the least
Comcast was rated by the American
Customer Satisfaction Index as the
lowest customer satisfaction rate in the
entire United States as a service in the
entire United States and that spoke
whites true for myself I often had slow
internet speeds
my internet crashed a lot and was even
worse I had some weird Comcast ads like
but anyways get back to the topic so
what really is net neutrality and what
does that exactly mean while net
neutrality is a basic principle on the
internet that was instated by the FCC
back in 2013 or the Federal
Communications Commission
that’s establishes a US company that
stated that these ISPs
not in any way interfere with your
internet data that basically means that
they cannot slow down speed up interfere
bill you or block you in any way with
your internet experience that neutrality
is a very good principle in general
terms it allows businesses to grow and
develop on the Internet it promotes
freedom of speech on the internet and
most importantly it allows the internet
to grow as a platform so maybe asking
yourself why am I even talking about net
neutrality if it’s such a good principle
who would want to get rid of it exactly
well to be frank net neutrality is
already gone on December the 14th of
2017 the FCC or the Federal
Communications Commission how to vote a
democratic vote on that on repealing net
neutrality the vote ended in a 3-2 to 3
being Republicans and to being Democrats
well yeah obviously
now this vote largely took place because
of the newly administered FCC chairman
of 2017 a G PI and yeah he’s been on the
internet lately a G PI’s largest
argument is that he says that net
neutrality stifles innovation and gives
the government more control over the
Internet and while that’s truth some are
certain extent and it could have its
consequences at the same time you’re
just giving these guys companies that
that who want money more power and
what’s worse is that a GPI neglects to
listen to the American people a large
majority of the American people do not
want this repeal to happen even whether
you’re Democratic Republican whatever
doesn’t matter most people do not favor
this and yeah exactly so ISPs have also
stated that they won’t do anything with
this power and they just want less
control by the government over the
internet but they’re just basically
saying we’re not going to abuse it but
we want the ability to abuse it like
what
these guys so net the Charlie new will
completely change how the internet
functions unlike today let’s take this
example the consideration Comcast a very
popular ISP in the United States
partners with Yahoo a Comcast customer
gets slow internet speeds on Google and
has to pay pay for Google as well what
the whatever this is what the post non
net neutrality internet could look like
common sites such as YouTube Netflix
Google and other such sites could be
separately billed every month with
depending on their package and their ISP
for their their access to this of these
web sites and what’s even worse is the
the biggest problem with this repeal
well it will completely destroy freedom
of speech on the Internet
let’s say ISP has some weird political
view they could block anything they
could block a negative criticism about
that ISP now the sad part is FCC the FCC
has already repealed net neutrality but
for it to fully take effect it needs to
actually go through the Congress first
and that’ll take place in 60 days so
there is still a little light in the
dark thus the Senate has ordered a bill
under the congressional review act to
nullify the FCC’s decision on repealing
net neutrality the the vote needs a
large majority the Democratics people on
the Senate as well as a few Republican
senators and I’m happy to say that as of
yesterday we only need one more
Republican that might take a while to
support this bill so this is where you
come in if you’re a US citizen I want
you to contact your local senator
whatever state you come from or even a
different state at that to research them
and see if they support this bill if not
ask them what the hell they’re doing
and if you don’t live in the u.s. always
realize that there’s a domino effect to
this the u.s. actually trinkles a large
majority of their net neutrality rules
to other countries if you live in
Thailand China wherever if the US
repeals that neutrality it’ll go
everywhere else pretty much now I love
the Internet you probably all you all
probably do too and that neutrality is
important to keeping this internet free
and open we need to save net neutrality
to save the open and free internet I
want all of you to support me in this
thank you
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so who here has heard of Edward Snowden
before the infamous former CIA agent
that revealed information heavy
information on that on the NSA to
WikiLeaks back in 2013 some regard
Edward Snowden as a hero to the American
people some regard him as a traitor but
in the end he changed the world with
what he revealed but what if I told you
that in two years time another
individual released more information on
a different government agency but this
time no one can see it
what if only the government can see it
or even worse what if the government
also couldn’t see it
hi my name is ko Hassan I’ll be talking
about net neutrality and why your
freedom on the Internet is at risk
so before I moved to Thailand I lived in
the United States and and like any US
citizen would know there were ISPs or
Internet service providers to choose
from for your internet access there was
Comcast Verizon Wireless AT&T Time
Warner Cable my family unfortunately
chose Comcast and it was the greatest
well to say the least
Comcast was rated by the American
Customer Satisfaction Index as the
lowest customer satisfaction rate in the
entire United States as a service in the
entire United States and that spoke
whites true for myself I often had slow
internet speeds
my internet crashed a lot and was even
worse I had some weird Comcast ads like
but anyways get back to the topic so
what really is net neutrality and what
does that exactly mean while net
neutrality is a basic principle on the
internet that was instated by the FCC
back in 2013 or the Federal
Communications Commission
that’s establishes a US company that
stated that these ISPs
not in any way interfere with your
internet data that basically means that
they cannot slow down speed up interfere
bill you or block you in any way with
your internet experience that neutrality
is a very good principle in general
terms it allows businesses to grow and
develop on the Internet it promotes
freedom of speech on the internet and
most importantly it allows the internet
to grow as a platform so maybe asking
yourself why am I even talking about net
neutrality if it’s such a good principle
who would want to get rid of it exactly
well to be frank net neutrality is
already gone on December the 14th of
2017 the FCC or the Federal
Communications Commission how to vote a
democratic vote on that on repealing net
neutrality the vote ended in a 3-2 to 3
being Republicans and to being Democrats
well yeah obviously
now this vote largely took place because
of the newly administered FCC chairman
of 2017 a G PI and yeah he’s been on the
internet lately a G PI’s largest
argument is that he says that net
neutrality stifles innovation and gives
the government more control over the
Internet and while that’s truth some are
certain extent and it could have its
consequences at the same time you’re
just giving these guys companies that
that who want money more power and
what’s worse is that a GPI neglects to
listen to the American people a large
majority of the American people do not
want this repeal to happen even whether
you’re Democratic Republican whatever
doesn’t matter most people do not favor
this and yeah exactly so ISPs have also
stated that they won’t do anything with
this power and they just want less
control by the government over the
internet but they’re just basically
saying we’re not going to abuse it but
we want the ability to abuse it like
what
these guys so net the Charlie new will
completely change how the internet
functions unlike today let’s take this
example the consideration Comcast a very
popular ISP in the United States
partners with Yahoo a Comcast customer
gets slow internet speeds on Google and
has to pay pay for Google as well what
the whatever this is what the post non
net neutrality internet could look like
common sites such as YouTube Netflix
Google and other such sites could be
separately billed every month with
depending on their package and their ISP
for their their access to this of these
web sites and what’s even worse is the
the biggest problem with this repeal
well it will completely destroy freedom
of speech on the Internet
let’s say ISP has some weird political
view they could block anything they
could block a negative criticism about
that ISP now the sad part is FCC the FCC
has already repealed net neutrality but
for it to fully take effect it needs to
actually go through the Congress first
and that’ll take place in 60 days so
there is still a little light in the
dark thus the Senate has ordered a bill
under the congressional review act to
nullify the FCC’s decision on repealing
net neutrality the the vote needs a
large majority the Democratics people on
the Senate as well as a few Republican
senators and I’m happy to say that as of
yesterday we only need one more
Republican that might take a while to
support this bill so this is where you
come in if you’re a US citizen I want
you to contact your local senator
whatever state you come from or even a
different state at that to research them
and see if they support this bill if not
ask them what the hell they’re doing
and if you don’t live in the u.s. always
realize that there’s a domino effect to
this the u.s. actually trinkles a large
majority of their net neutrality rules
to other countries if you live in
Thailand China wherever if the US
repeals that neutrality it’ll go
everywhere else pretty much now I love
the Internet you probably all you all
probably do too and that neutrality is
important to keeping this internet free
and open we need to save net neutrality
to save the open and free internet I
want all of you to support me in this
thank you
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[Applause]
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