Same area. They too are concerned. Any sense, that may be a good thing. Their strength is going to be if they can act collectively. What the chinese are doing here, in one case, building airfields so that they can launch aircraft to do patrols and surveillance. Further exerted what they consider their sovereignty over the south china sea. It has been impressive in the last year or year and a half since they have been doing this. As they pursued drilling. Which has caused conflict with the vietnamese. This is a worrisome trend of the chinese because of the tensions it is going to create in the south china sea. They have been very aggressive about it. You have not only the kit bodhi be to build an airfield but weapon systems capability to build an airfield but also weapon systems. It will be interesting to see what they do. Our attention is on other parts of the world. This is really quite a major step on their part. I thank you for helping us out on it. One question and react in reaction. We understand there is a Huge Campaign isolate is undertaking to attract recruits. You may not be able to comment in this setting. Are we taking steps to interdict that communication . So they are not able to put things up and attract recruits . Communicate . The problem there is they are using the media ubiquity seeitously. The problem is, how do you take down the internet. In the day, it was channelized. They have gotten wise to that and they make it difficult. Because the universal forms and the way they get things out so ubiquitously. Very hard to control. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] click today, House Majority whip today, House Majority leader mccarthy and with courier whip hoyer. Live coverage begins at 5 00 p. M. Here on cspan. Baltimore Police Commissioner on the challenges of policing the city. It is clear to me i had an issue of public trust in people having an issue of the things that were said. Regardless of the fact i stand before you like i did today that this person can bring it down to 53 , that the lawsuits are down an officer involved shootings are dramatically down people in the communities say, we dont believe it here it are co it. The cspan city tour takes book tv in American History tv on the road to learn about history and literary life here next weekend, we partnered with comcast for a visit to texas. Opening the canal in 1869 sailing sailing ships were almost dealt a death well. With the opening of the canal ships had a shorter route to the far east, to india and ships really needed to find a way to make their own living. Instead of highvalue cargo, they started carrying low value cargo. Coal, oil, cotton, etc. She really found her niche in carrying any kind of cargo that did not require getting into the market and fast pace. Saturday, march 7, at noon eastern. On thursday, in a partyline vote of 32, federal Communications Position approved new open internet rules designed to prohibit Internet Service providers from blocking or discriminating against illegal content moving through their networks. It would also stop providers from having fast lanes or preferential treatment. This is about one hour and 35 minutes. We are now pleased to present for your consideration an order that has set forth clear sustainable, enforceable rules to preserve and protect the open internet as a place for innovation and Free Expression. The order builds on the views of 4 million americans who commented in response to the notice of proposed rulemaking you adopted last may. We have two guests with us today. Chad dickerson and the creator of the tv drama we also have a brief video from an inventor of the worldwide web and founder of the worldwide web consortium. They will provide brief remarks about the importance of an open internet to innovation, invest, creativity, and Free Expression. Id first like to turn it over to mr. Dickerson. Thank you, chairman wheeler for the opportunity to his today. As the ceo of etsy, im here to thank you and your colleagues for taking Decisive Action to protect the internet. Etsys an online marketplace for you can buy handmade and vintage good from artists around the world. Weve democratize access to entrepreneurship for 1. 2 million sellers. Most are sole proprietors work from home. They live in all 50 states and the depend on their etsy income to support their families. 18 support themselves fulltime on etsy. Etsy and our sellers rely on a free and open internet that allows the company to grow from a tiny startup in a brooklyn apartment to a Global Company with over 600 employees. It allows the micro businesses that sell to reach buyers around the world and compute with much bigger, more established brands. Back in 1993, it allowed me, in english major with a data entry job at a newspaper to jump start my career in technology by teaching myself how to code. There is hope for english majors. [laughter] without strong rules prevent discrimination the economy would suffer. Take etsy. We charge 20 cents to list an item, and we take only 3 of every transaction. We could not afford to pay for priority act as to consumers but we know that delays in milliseconds have longterm impacts on revenue. Absence of rules you are voting on today we would be forced to raise fees or leave ours dollars in this low lane redding the micro business who depended our platform us about. The Etsy Community knows what is at stake. On september 10, 30,000 of them joined millions urging congress and the fcc to protect the open internet. Many others meehan credit made handcrafted objects for Net Neutrality. Several more sense thank you cards, which i gave to chairman wheeler earlier. Ive a handwritten note in my hands from nancy from california. She wrote, my note is a personal thank you to you for protecting the Free Internet for all. I worked in the medical field for 30 years and loved it that a couple years ago a girl texting on the freeway took my career way for me. My injuries forced me to find income from something i could do from a chair. I turned to my passion for creativity and vintage items and joined etsy. My dream is alive and viable because of the Free Internet neutrality and etsy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support for me and countless other Little People trying to glean income from their artistry. I applaud the fcc for establishing clear rules that ban dissemination online. Over the last year, over 4 Million People weighed in on this proceeding. Todays vote demonstrates they have been hurt. Thank you for voting to protect the internet as an engine for Economic Opportunity the likes of which we have never seen. Thank you. Thank you for your leadership and please say thank you to nancy. Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I am a Television Producer and a member of the Writers Guild of america west. I developed a tv series, a show that survived two near deaths. It originally aired on amc. Netflix offered to share the cost. We were able to end the series all because of the internet that has opened up competition. We told some of our best stories, our toughest most heartbreaking once in the last two seasons of the show, stories that never would have been on the air had it not been for the open internet. We talked about the Death Penalty and homelessness and drug addiction. Im so grateful we had that opportunity. What the open internet means for creativity, innovation is by no means limited to my own experience. Series like transparent are giving voice to world and experiences never be forced in on the small screen. While little more than 20 of comedies and dramas on Traditional Television have a woman at the helm, almost 40 of the series airing on these new Online Platforms this season will be run by women. This progress is a result of new competition let loose on an industry that is highly consolidated. It is the result of pentup demand by an American Public tired of hearing the same old same old. It is result of innovation on a platform that does not require permission that is expanded how where, and by whom stories can be told. Because of the open internet, we are in your freemarket ideal work as adam smith intended with increasing, titian rich rewards consumers and creators. However, this will not continue without strong roles that help ensure that markets work properly. The few companies that control the pipe and face little competition have already begun to exercise or gatekeeper power to limit the promise of this new platform. Today, we have arrived at the moment where you decide the future. The right decision, the one that will benefit creators, innovators, the economy and the American People is to reclassify broadband Internet Service as a Telecommunications Service. Only reclassification will allow the commission to its to the rules that will ban paid prioritization and all the ways in which the companies that control distribution can tip the scales in their favor. What you do today can secure the future of the open internet and make sure all our voices are heard each and every one of us. Thank you. Thank you. And now id like to ask our Audiovisual Team to play the video from sir tim. [video clip] thank you, chairman wheeler and the members of the commission for the opportunity to address you at a critical moment for the future of the internet. More than anything else, the actions you take today to preserve let me explain. 25 years ago, the internet [inaudible] so 25 years ago, the Internet User i could sit down, write a program, write the web server, give copies of people and let them run on computers [feedback] all that was necessary was to plug into the internet. I didnt have to ask anybodys permission. From this, the worldwide web spread to reach all corners of the global, interconnected world, making hundreds of billions of dollars for Economic Growth i didnt have to get permission from anybody. I didnt have to pay isp specialties. I did not have to convince anybody that this new technology should be let through. I did not have to worry that they would not [indiscernible] so i did not have to ask permission from anybody. The web itself on top of internet is another platform. Thank you. So, that is really its a wonderful system. The openness of the internet created an opportunity for me 25 years ago, will ensure that the next innovators come home with a great new service and great improvements, the web will have the opportunity to try their ideas in the free market just as i did. Fcc action is about consumer rights, free speech. It is about democracy. Its also about business. The openness of the internet [indiscernible] the fact that the internet is mutual so i applaud the chairman on the time tested to authority which enables the commission to write hopefully the kind of simple, clear rules that are the basis on which our society depends. The fact that some repressive regimes of use the legal system on the internet cant deter us from protecting openness and free speech. Rather we set an example of how free speech sets basic rules. Facing the question about what to do with Net Neutrality. The fcc is leading the way and showing how to continue the fight in innovation. We are society of laws. The free market depends on based on rules. [indiscernible] in which the flow of information on the internet is her economic and social life blood. We have to add Net Neutrality to a list of basic market conditions. Thank you again, mr. Chairman and members of the commission for the important stuff you are taking today and the opportunity to make this contribution. The remarks we have heard from our guest and from sir tim reflect the widespread consensus of the importance of protecting and promoting an open internet. An item of this complexity and scope requires quite a team. Economist, engineers technologists and attorneys across the commission all played roles in preparing the items before you. On behalf of the competition bureau, i would like to thank our colleagues and general counsel, Wireless Telecommunication Bureau and consumer and Governmental Affairs bureau, and the enforcement euros, as well as our chief technologist scott jordan. With me at the table are of the office of general counsel. Roger sherman and jiim of the Wireless Telecommunications bureau. And claude aikin and melissa of the competition bureau. Melissa will present the item. Good morning, mr. Chairman and commissioners. At the outset, the order before you sets for three bright line rules to ban conduct that we know threatens the open internet. First, broadband providers may not block access to legal content, application, services or nonharmful device. Second, they may not impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the basis of content, applications, services, or any classes thereof. Third, they may not favor some internet traffic over other internet traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind. In other words, no fast lanes. As in the commissions open internet order, todays order also adopts a standard for judging concerns with any future practice is on a case i case basis. That standard will prohibit broadband providers from unreasonably interfering with or disadvantaging the ability of consumers and providers to reach one another. All of these rules, other than the ban on paid prioritization are subject to a common thans exception for reasonable Network Management. That the order makes clear that they commission will not tolerate abusive this exception. The order also enhances the transparency rule adopted in 2010, which is still in effect. It provides smaller broadband providers with a temporary exemption from these enhancements and set in motion a process to consider whether to make that or another exemption permanent. The order also notes that some data services, like facility space voice, are not Broadband Internet access and not subject to the context rules. The order, however, does ensure that these services do not undermine the effectiveness of the open internet rules. Also, the order allows the commission to address any problems that arise in the exchange of traffic between Broadband Internet access providers and other networks and services. The order recognizes that when internet interconnection breaks down, ultimately it is consumers that their the harm. The order grounds these news protections in multiple sources of authority. First, it classifies Broadband Internet access, fixed and mobile, as a telik medication service. In offering this service, the broadband providers make a promise to the enduser to trance that traffic to and from all lawful internet and points. End points. This is no less true in mobile than it is in fixed. Accordingly, the order finds that mobile Broadband Internet access their various is a commercial mobile service under section 332 of the Communications Act and all of the open internet protections that apply to fixed broadband also apply to mobile. With respect to interconnection, the order explains that this promise encompasses the duty to make the necessary Traffic Exchange arrangements that allows consumers to use the internet as they wish. These findings concerning Broadband InternetAccess Service provide the best Legal Certainty for rules guaranteeing an open internet and reflect the reality of how broadband providers offer their services to the public today. To ensure the Service Classification results in continued light touch framework for broadband, the order exercises the Forbearance Authority granted to the commission by congress forbearing from some 27 provisions of title ii in over 700 regulations adopted. The order retains core authority to prevent unjust and unreasonable practices, protects consumers, and support universal service. The order makes clear that broadband providers will not subject to utility style regulations. This means no unbundling tariffs or other forms of rate regulation. The order does not require broadband providers to contribute to the universal service fund, nor does it impose, suggest, or authorize any new taxes or fees. In short, the order before a response to the unprecedented record in this proceeding by adopting strong, open internet protections and resting them on solid legal ground. The beer recommends adoption of this item and request editorial privileges the bureau recommends adoption of this item and request editorial privileges. Thank all of you for your efforts on this. Thank you. Following years of vigorous debate, the United States adopted the bill o f rights in 1791. The framers recognized the basic freedoms as enshrined in the first 10 amendments to the constitution were fundamental to a free and open Democratic Society. James madison gave life to the First Amendment in a scant 45 words, mr. Chairman,