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so I've got a huge update regarding net neutrality and really we've got fantastic news so as you've seen over the course of the last couple of months little by little we have some states some governors some attorneys general taking action to protect net neutrality and now when we step back and look at all of the progress that states have made it's now the case that more states have taken action to protect net neutrality then states that heaven and now dozens of states and a total of nearly 70% of the country's overall population lives in states that are fighting to protect net neutrality so as you can see from this map here there are just thirteen states that haven't taken any action whatsoever to protect net neutrality but overall you can see the various ways that other states are fighting to protect net neutrality so let me give you a little bit of details about this map ski so black means that that state passed a law protecting that neutrality fully and at this point only one state has done that thus far and that is Washington however Oregon is currently dark-gray meaning that both legislative chambers has in fact passed legislation and the governor of Oregon Kate Brown is expected to sign that into law so Oregon is expected to become the second state to switch to black and California may soon be switching to dark gray because they are currently weighing a bill to protect net neutrality as well now additionally orange means that a governor has stepped up to protect net neutrality via executive order in that state Brown means that a States Attorney General has joined Eric Schneiderman's lawsuit to sue the FCC and green this is another rare thing means that various municipalities in that state has moved towards public broadband and currently Colorado is the only state with more than 100 municipalities that has decided to sign up for public broadband although Hawaii may become the next state because they are considering statewide public broadband and blue means that a net neutrality bill was introduced by a lawmaker from that state now by looking at SMAP as you can see there are quite a bit of states that are blue so it doesn't necessarily mean that that law will be passed but it means that at least one lawmaker in that state sees the importance of protecting net neutrality now again I want to reiterate the importance of the domino effect because when Washington Washington state that has passed that neutrality legislation more states began to immediately follow suit we have Oregon now on the cusp of passing net neutrality and we have California considering even tougher legislation in the state of Washington which then had the toughest net neutrality law proposed in the entire country when it passed but now we see 28 states in total moving in washington's direction and that includes the state of Alaska California as I mentioned Colorado Connecticut Delaware Georgia Hawaii Idaho Kansas Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Missouri Montana Nebraska New Jersey New Mexico New York Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Vermont Virginia West Virginia and Wisconsin and of course there's some overlap because in those states where a lawmaker has proposed a bill to protect net neutrality well in some cases that state's governor has already signed an executive order guaranteeing that net neutrality will be preserved and that now is at five states in total including Hawaii Montana New Jersey New York and Vermont's now if your state's lawmaker if your governor hasn't taken action to preserve net neutrality then it may be the case that your Attorney General has because in 23 States Attorneys General have signed on to sue the FCC and join New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman x' lawsuit and this includes California Connecticut Delaware DC Hawaii Illinois Iowa Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi Minnesota Montana New Mexico New York North Carolina Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Virginia and Washington state and if you live in a state that hasn't done much to protect net neutrality maybe it's okay that you live in a city where your mayor has decided to protect net neutrality because there is a mayor's for net neutrality coalition featuring 11 mayor's this includes Bill DeBlasio from New York City Steve Adler from Austin Texas Ted wheeler from Portland Oregon Ron Nierenberg from San Antonio Texas Sly James from Kansas City Missouri Marc Ferrell from San Francisco California Catherine Pugh from Baltimore Maryland Barney saini from Putnam Connecticut Paul Soglin from Madison Wisconsin Sam Lockhart Oh from San Jose California and Jacob Frey from Minneapolis Minnesota and again I want to emphasize that some states are not only protecting net neutrality in one way they're doing it in a multitude of ways so some states have their governor their Attorney General and lawmakers teaming up to protect net neutrality in different ways so this is huge so at this point if you live in a state that hasn't done at least one thing to protect net neutrality or if you don't even have one lawmaker that decided to introduce legislation to protect net neutrality then you really have to take action because if you don't have a state that's gonna act soon well a GTI's anti net neutrality order will go into effect I believe at the end of April so things are getting serious and this is why a lot of states are acting now there is currently only 11 states that haven't done anything to preserve net neutrality this includes Alabama Arizona Florida Indiana Louisiana Nevada New Hampshire North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Texas Utah and Wyoming so when all 13 of those states not even one lawmaker decided to introduce a bill to protect net neutrality [Applause] that to me is completely unacceptable how can you not have a single lawmaker from either party stand up for a bipartisan issue that's incredibly popular where the overwhelming majority of the American people will be on your side makes no sense but those thirteen states have been done anything so if you live in one of those states call your state senator call your state representative and make sure him that he or she knows that you're paying attention and when it comes time for their reelection you're not gonna have their back if they're not gonna have your back and furthermore if you don't have a lawmaker who's representing you nationally and the Senate or in the House of Representatives that is refusing to sign on to the congressional review act to nullify the FCC's repeal of net neutrality which was B which would be the easiest way to preserve net neutrality then you also need to call him or her and let them know that they need to take a stand but I want to make this video about States because I am so proud of the progress all of these states have made to protect net neutrality now I want to focus on three states in particular because there's a lot going on and I think it's important that if we kind of dive into the details and explore what's happening so when it comes to the state of California they're considering a bill so strong if it passes it would actually go beyond the original title two protections at the FCC passed in 2015 so as Clint Finley of Wired reports California State Senator Scott Weiner on Wednesday introduced a bill that would create a regime in some ways more strict than the Obama era rules against blocking throttling or otherwise discriminating against content most important Weiner's bill if passed would in many cases ban broadband providers from exempting certain content from data limits a concept known as zero rating for example 18 t would no longer be allowed to exempt its DirecTV now video streaming service from its customers data cast while counting data consumes by competing services like sling TV the FCC claimed authority to regulate the practice on a case-by-case basis but never took formal action against it this would be a monumental victory for net neutrality because even when we had title to net neutrality on the books well these companies who are so greedy we're finding a roundabout way to violate net neutrality in the way that they were doing in this is they weren't treating all web traffic equally not by blocking or throttling but by simply allowing their own content to not go towards their customers data gaps so if you're not treating all content equally if you're trying to discourage people from using certain types of web apps or services you're violating net neutrality and FCC even under Obama's administration well they didn't really go after this in the way that they should but California here is making sure that they have the power to do away with this sort of zero-rating scheme which honestly it's it's a violation of net neutrality now when it comes to the state of Alaska they have two bills that's being considered one in the house and one in the Senate and as any Zach of Anchorage Daily News reports two bills working their way through the legislature would prevent Internet service providers in Alaska from slowing down or blocking access to whichever lawful websites they choose and prohibit paid prioritization of certain sites now the House version of this bill which is bill 2 to 7 has co-sponsors from the Democratic Party in the Senate version which is bill 160 has bipartisan support reportedly so it's looking pretty good in Alaska so certainly there's some momentum there you just need to push them in the right direction so you live in that state please make the calls needed to get this codified into law now when it comes to the state of Oregon which is my state Michael Gillette of Oregon live explains that the Oregon House and Senate both passed a bill protecting that neutrality and the governor is expected to now sign it into law however this will obviously open the door to a lawsuit against the state for violating the FCC's preemption rule and yes that is technically true by passing laws protecting net neutrality these states are opening the door to them being sued by the FCC or the federal government but the alternative is to do nothing so should they just do nothing and worry about getting sued or should they take action protect net neutrality and then bolster our own argument and even our own legal argument arguably because more states are signing up to protect net neutrality I mean that's obviously the right course of action if the FCC wants to fight each of these states then so be it but if you're a lawmaker you have a responsibility to take action for your constituents and that's exactly what organ lawmakers are doing and I applaud them for it so here's what we have to do now we can't just sit back and be excited about the fact that dozens of states are fighting to protect net neutrality because the only reason why they're doing this is because we've continued to keep pressure on them ever since the FCC did vote to repeal net neutrality on December 14th of last year but we have to keep the momentum going so not only do you need to call your state lawmaker but you also need to called who represents you in the United States Senate and House of Representatives to make sure that that individual signs on to the congressional review act joint resolution to nullify the FCC's repeal of net neutrality if we could do that all this action at the state level it won't even really be necessary because that would just undo the FCC's December vote but still we can't Bank on Congress doing the right thing because obviously as it stands now there is only 50 co-sponsors of the CRA in the Senate which means that it be a tied Mike Pence would come in probably break that time and there'd be no chance that it gets to Donald Trump's desk now in the event it does get to Donald Trump's desk is he gonna sign that into law absolutely not but it still will elevate this this issue to a national level hopefully garner maybe a little bit of mainstream media coverage give us a break from hearing about Russia and stormy Daniels and Don jr. and his wife I mean this is a really important issue the mainstream media has completely failed us here they have not talking about this issue they casually mentioned it a couple of times once it was repealed but most of the segments you guys all saw the videos I did were negative they were against that neutrality or presented the issue in a skewed manner to suggest that this was a battle between a giant tech companies like Comcast and Verizon versus Google and Facebook that's not the case this is the people versus these gigantic corporation and a rogue FCC chairman named Ajit pi who's only doing the bidding of his former and future employer so if we want to fight to protect net neutrality then we have to take action and it's easy you just got to make some calls and if you really can make a huge difference and show up to your representative or senator's office because nothing tells them that you're serious about an issue like going there face to face but a lot of us you know to be realistic we have jobs we have responsibility we don't have time for that so certainly if you can call that's substantial if they receive enough calls they will take action and there's evidence that that works all you have to do is look at that map and see what activism for net neutrality does so let's get them support this podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com forward slash humanist report