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With the new shift that mark zuckerberg rolled out, their power is higher. they are seen as friends, not businesses. they are personalities that have engaged with an audience. so it is smart for businesses to leverage the influence they have over their consumer base. so i would expect to see a lot more brands focusing on the right inflow to reach the audiences needed for their business. >> interesting. if you play the influencer, the influencer needs to disclose that. and does that content then ...

Out altogether. there are countries where they dont have net neutrality, when you buy your package for your phone, i want this set of messaging apps or this set of apps and you pay a fee every time. >> could you also argue that for rich folks, rich customers for the internet, they can afford their way around this and the poor, the poor again get screwed? >> of course. in a situation like this where youve got massive corporations who are making decisions for all of the consumer base, youre going ...

Different content. they could slow down access to some content, block certain content, period. comcast owns the internet service xfinity. they also own 30% of hulu. it is a direct competitor of who? netflix. thanks to the fcc, comcast could charge you more to access netflix or serve it at a lower speed than it does hulu. while a big establishment company like netflix, they can probably handle that. they have such a big consumer base. what about the next netflix? what about the little guy that wa...

Facebook version of the internet which is all of facebooks utilities, all of facebooks messaging apps and suddenly, youve got separate internets essentially. youve got separate lanes that people are traveling in which could be bad for consumers. >> if youre an internet customer and they have cut a deal with youtube, it could mean that on some other service youll get the rotating wheel of death and itll have to wait? >> or degraded or services cut out altogether. there are countries where they do...

Facebook version of the internet which is all of facebooks utilities, all of facebooks messaging apps and suddenly, youve got separate internets essentially. youve got separate lanes that people are traveling in which could be bad for consumers. >> if youre an internet customer and your internet company has cut a deal with youtube it could mean that on some other service you will get the rotating wheel of death and it will have to wait? >> or degraded or services cut out altogether. there are co...

And why is the american economy uniquely strong economy in the world. and its because it enfranchises millions, tens of millions of middle-class americans. >> right. >> the strength of the u.s. economy has always been weve got a big middle-class consumer base. >> you look at other countries with similar populations, part of the issue is theres a remarkable base, an investor tax paying working class in the united states. >> yes there is. and this tax code pretends to serve that group of people, a...

Tillerson is not in complete lockstep with the administration for the reason hes had several issues in the last eight months whether staffing issues or political views and this is i think rex tillerson saying to the white house we really need to focus on the mission at hand because otherwise you may lose me at the end of the year. >> howard, whats your read? >> i agree with that. i think what trump doesnt understand is that corporate leaders are mostly in touch with where americans are not becau...

Contestants against each ooflt trump keeps a close eye on it. so this suggested he was taking presidential run far more seriously, far sooner than the establishment realized. and former winners of the apprentice, some began to reassess they were ever excited to get he hired by donald trump. >> so what was it like for you to hear those two beautiful words coming from the donalds mouth on live tell sfligs. >> i have to hear after hearing him say youre fired, to hear youre hired was a dream come tr...

Consumer base. >> okay. so -- but -- there has been some talk that no, you put people with preexisting conditions in a high risk pool system, separating them out from the general population. youre not suggesting that? >> what it does is -- then give them the broad subsidies that they need to be assured that their health insurance is still within their financial reach. and again, you boil that problem down, first in my view by assuring that those who have nuisances like that can still get insuran...

Freedom so that people can exempt their nuisances and separate those out from the things that could bankrupt or kill them, now youve reduced that pool to a manageable level and then the same kind of assigned risk pools we currently use for example for autoinsurance could be used for that purpose. >> then how do you not punish the person that has the preexisting condition in a high-risk pool? why punish them with a higher insurance rate just because of their dna? >> well, insurance covers risk, i...