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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 next netflix, some awesome start up can't. >> brian with that handy guide. >> hours from now, u.s. and...

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 streaming services like netflix, and president obama. they all argue the internet is a public good and sh...

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. they really believe they don't need politics. it's become irrelevant.

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 don't need politics. it's become irrelevant. >> does that mean you don't have to get off your chair? you just work with a laptop. is that it? is that the future? laptop e...

There's 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. it's 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 it's always been whose fault is that. it is the people who own the pipe or the people who own the stuff that goes through the pipe. >> what if you have a different cable provider? >> still waiting on that. comcast ...