The Telecommunication Oligopoly, FCC, Antitrust and Net Neutrality in general

The Telecommunication Oligopoly, FCC, Antitrust and Net Neutrality.

Comprehensive info on the "Net Neutrality" issue.

For anyone who communicates through high-bandwidth media, the FCC’s proposal would be very bad.

Video script and better formatted version of the links below can be found on the blog: 

http://vihart.com/net-neutrality-in-t...

Politicians love when you personally contact them! It is a fact. 

List of FCC commissioners and their twitters, emails, blogs, instagrams, etc:

http://www.fcc.gov/leadership

Don't know how to contact your representative? 

Find out who they are and let them know you're watching them!

http://whoismyrepresentative.com/

Comment form for proceeding 14-28 "Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet"
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/displ...

Comment form for proceeding 14-57 "Applications of Comcast Corporation and Time Warner Cable Inc. for Consent to Assign or Transfer Control of Licenses and Applications"
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/displ...

The above proceeding has 

List of all proceedings available for comment:

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/hotdocket/list

General "open internet" FCC inbox: openinternet@fcc.gov

whitehouse.gov petition for net neutrality in general:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/peti...

whitehouse.gov petition for reclassifying broadband as common carrier, specifically:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/peti...

Once you have a whitehouse.gov account, you can sign petitions about all sorts of things you care about! 

There's a rally in Washington DC on May 15 2014 if you're around:

http://act.freepress.net/survey/DC_Ma...

Learn more about all this stuff:

Court case ruling cable internet as an "information service" rather than "telecommunications service":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National...
Communications act of 1934, describing common carriers under title II:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communic...
Telecommunications act of 1996, including Title V, the CDA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomm...
Communications Decency Act, part of the Telecommunications act of 1996, which protected ISPs from liability:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communic...

The FCC's Open Internet Order 2010:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Open...
Verizon had the above overturned in 2014 as not applying to non-common carriers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_...)

A couple other attempts at net neutrality things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communic...

Data on internet speed from study "The Cost of Connectivity":http://oti.newamerica.net/publication...

Terms to know
Antitrust law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S...
Cartel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel
Common carrier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_c...
DMCA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
FCC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_...
Game theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
ISP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP
Monopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Net neutrality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neut...
Oligopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
Telecommunication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomm...

Also see these other videos on the topic:
BlinkPopShift: http://youtu.be/bzUuOscaDbI
CGPGrey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtt2a...
Extra Credits: http://youtu.be/wQtiIazfoQM
Hank Green: http://youtu.be/mc2aso6W7jQ


Thankyou Emily Eifler and Christopher Hart for their advice!