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Net Neutrality Died With the Comcast/Netflix Deal
The fix is in, and unless we do something quick - the internet as we know it will disappear for good. On Sunday, Comcast and Netflix announced that they had reached a deal that will give Netflix direct access to Comcast's broadband networks. Until now, Netflix has only been able to sends its content to homeowners and internet users by using middlemen companies like Cogent.
Cogent, which in internet parlance is known as a "backbone provider," routs Netflix's content through to Comcast, which then sends that content to millions of homes across the country. But with its new megadeal, Netflix will get to avoid Cogent altogether and send its content straight to Comcast, and, from there, to TV fans like you and me.
In the short term, this means that Netflix users who get their internet from Comcast will get to stream movies and TV shows at faster speeds than they did before. Sounds pretty good, right?
Well, not really.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Net Neutrality Died with Comcast/Netflix Deal (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice... frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
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Screwed: The ObamaCare Hail Mary- Neil Sroka, Democracy for America 
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The SCOTUS Climate Power- Shane Farnan, Talk Radio News Service
PLUS, PipeLIES Exposed
- Dave Saldana, "PipeLIES Exposed".
Everything You Know Is Wrong: Stop Molesting Cows!- Vandhana Bala, Mercy For Animals
Daily Take: Mr President...Regulate Now or We Face Extinction
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Hour Two: Victory for marriage in Illinois!- Ed Yohnka, ACLU of Illinois Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.". Article: " Federalist No. 81" (The Judiciary Continued, and the Distribution of the Judicial Authority) by Alexander Hamilton. Article: " Federalist No. 84" by Alexander Hamilton (The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury).
Hour Three: The battle for net neutrality...what's next?- Craig Aaron, Free Press Quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith. |
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Big Banks...the biggest scam yet?- David Dayen, Salon.com
Hour Two: Corporate civil rights...end game for democracy?- Joshua Holland, Bill Moyers.com
Hour Three: Mr President: Regulate Now OR We Face Human Extinction
PLUS, SCOTUS Weighing in on Climate Change?- Shane Farnan, Talk Radio News Service
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