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There were several fake news accounts whether it was regard to the russia investigation or to me. and we have to hold all of these people acouldntable. how is it that every day there conservatives that are being banned? i think if twitter wants to be in the public square and they dont want to be a content developer. they should come clean. give us all your algorithms. how is it possible that i can be attacked relentlessly, hundreds of times a day by fake accounts that they claim in their terms o...

Candidate. mark: should they be regulateed? >> i dont necessarily think so. they should be treated as a public forum. that is an important distinction constitutionally and for the courts because theyre not a content provider. they need to be treated as a public forum which google pretends they are. mark: they are a private company, how do you treat it as a public forum? >> thats the distinction. if they want -- google, for example, pretends theyre a public forum because they allow different voic...

Regulateed? >> i dont necessarily think so. they should be treated as a public forum. that is an important distinction constitutionally and for the courts because theyre not a content provider. they need to be treated as a public forum which google pretends they are. mark: they are a private company, how do you treat it as a public forum? >> thats the distinction. if they want -- google, for example, pretends theyre a public forum because they allow different voices and opinions to be heard. fac...

Conversation with robert mcdowell, the former fcc commissioner who made the point before 2015, we didnt have these rules and it created facebook and amazon and google. why does it matter? >> well, and the answer to that is that we had several instances where people were starting to test the boundaries of net neutrality. the best example is at&t blocking facetime. and once people started to realize, once companies, especially as they integrate from being just an isp to being an isp and a content ...

What if you have too much control of tv properties. telephones and tv, these are two different things. >> obviously its a distribution network versus content provider. the idea is to have a complement there but you dont want one company to be so empowered it drives up costs on consumers. thats the argument. in this case it seems there is a lot of complementary nature to the deal and its just interesting whats going on. i was talking to a hedge fund manager i know early this week who said youre g...

Giants like facebook and google and president obama. they all argue the internet is a public good and should be regulated like one. they t say that companies can play favorites. a content provider like netflix is in direct competition with comcast which owns nbc universal and controls access to the internet for more than 20 million customers. you can imagine a scenario where nbc might want to speed up speeds of its show and slow down netflix. netflix can afford to pay for a fast lane. but the ne...

Superhighway. in other words, speeding up access to some sites and slowing down access to others. or blocking certain sites entirely. so are these rules a bad thing? it depends who you ask. the companies that deliver your internet, like comcast, verizon and at&t has spent millions in lobbying money to get rid of net neutrality arguing that having the government micromanage their business is not good for them or their consumers. on the other side are internet giants like facebook and google strea...

Your life into politics building a career and hope to participate in three or four major issues maybe when you can go online and find 100,000 people and get stuff done right away? we all marched around the pentagon and all these things over the vietnam war. took us seven years to shut the war down. they went online for three days and got rid of one of the very few bipartisan bills three years ago because they thought it was biased towards the content provider. the internet is such a strong tool....

Maybe when you can go online and find 100,000 people and get stuff done right away? we all marched around the pentagon and all these things over the vietnam war. took us seven years to shut the war down. they went online for three days and got rid of one of the very few bipartisan bills three years ago because they thought it was biased towards the content provider. the internet is such a strong tool. they really believe they dont need politics. its become irrelevant. >> does that mean you dont ...

Theres been a lot of dispute, big point of contention about how fast or slow netflix is on those big pipes, those broadband pipes controlled by comcast. netflix has been battling with broadband providers. its a huge issue. the pipeline is only so big and at its peak primetime peak netflix content fills up 32% of that pipe. that want create as traffic jam, a slow down and until now its always been whose fault is that. it is the people who own the pipe or the people who own the stuff that goes thr...