Dec 18, 2019
A year ago, FCC repealed net neutrality - the law that required
internet service providers to treat all data passing through their
servers the same. Proponents of net neutrality said that the repeal
would yield higher prices and worse service. In this week's episode
James and Ant ask what actually happened.
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Quick hits
Billion dollar property tax error
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/business/ups-drugs-tucson-arizona.html
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin
Richard Branson’s first space passenger
Amazon’s satellite constellation
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazons-project-kuiper-oneweb-raise-curtain-higher-satellite-plans/
Foolishness of the week
UK to require that food labelling tell consumers how much exercise they must do to burn off calories
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50711652
Topic of the week
Download speeds
https://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-states/
https://www.bandwidthplace.com/pennsylvania/
https://www.bandwidthplace.com/ohio/
https://www.bandwidthplace.com/georgia/
https://www.bandwidthplace.com/california/
https://www.bandwidthplace.com/new-york/
Price of residential internet service
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU374102
Warnings people gave about repealing net neutrality
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/10/one-year-later-the-internet-thrives-without-net-neutrality/
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