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Hope even a fantastic Tuesday welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it the first thing
I want to talk about today the first thing we have to talk about today is the
FCC and net neutrality if you've watched a show for a while
You know we've talked about this a lot over the past few years. It's important
We talk about it again today because net neutrality is once again under attack just a brief refresher on net neutrality idea behind net neutrality
Is you have a free fair open Internet?
You know a level playing field it keeps the Internet service providers from being able to influence what people do on one
2015 the FCC labeled broadband internet a title 2 which made it a utility and ice' meant that legislation could stop ISPs from
throttling creating paid fast lanes any other control over broadband speeds worried here was that these ISPs would favor certain websites or services and if
You went to any others?
They would throttle broadband speeds already kind of seeing this pop up with wireless data
But it's always being touted as an incentive a certain cell service says hey if you go with us when when you watch
Netflix that doesn't go towards your data cap maybe it's with Hulu or whoever imagine your broadband internet right in your home all of a
Sudden you have Comcast they say hey guess what when you use Hulu you get the top tier the premium speed
And they have an incentive they own a good percentage of Hulu
But then guess what Netflix Amazon Prime those places those places don't get our fast lane for the Internet. It's slower. It's clunkier
Maybe hey, maybe if Netflix are Amazon Prime
they pay us we'll give them the Fastlane you got to pay a tax if you want to go over our Fastlane bridge imagine if
Comcast or another ISP launched a competitor to YouTube, and then they could just slow down the speeds to YouTube for their customer
Which you could argue and the chairman of the FCC now does well?
Hey If an ISP is going to do that the market will decide we don't want Comcast the market will keep companies
Honest and fair and no you know how many people have Comcast and they don't want Comcast
But they have to have Comcast because there aren't really any other options the same goes for several other
ISPs number of options for internet providers in your area
are
Pitiful the United States is so far behind so many other countries the consumers can't decide where a market goes when the market is that?
Limited when people have the option of Comcast ATT u-verse or just not having the Internet
That's not really a great situation
Back to the story in May as G pi the chairman of the FCC
releases a notice of proposed rulemaking and that proposes overturning the 2015 decision I was a part of this there was a public comment period
Where they received 22 million calm?
And you might remember last week tonight did that polish go FCC yourself comm they're really easy for people to say they didn't want these
New rule changes they wanted net neutrality and as part of this battle for net neutrality
We saw a lot of spam in that, but one study said they found 98.5 percent of the unique comments
We're against PI's proposal they were for net neutrality
but still despite all of that it now appears the FCC is still moving forward and a press release this morning pi said under my
Proposal the federal government will stop micromanaging the internet instead the FCC would simply require Internet service providers to be
transparent about their practices so that consumers can buy the service plan that's best for them and
entrepreneurs and other small businesses can have the technical information
They need to innovate and they titled it restoring Internet freedom order hi statement
Then said the text of the plan will be released three weeks before the vote on December 14 the official FCC Twitter says that it
Will be released tomorrow reportedly sources close to the plans say that it will return
Broadband Internet to title one as opposed to title two so if that's correct the move would end the rules that stop Internet service providers
from blocking
Slowing broadband speeds creating pain fast lanes the plan would also allow ISPs to choose for themselves whether or not to throttle or create fast
lanes but as mentioned before there would be a
transparency rule included in the plan this would require service providers to inform their customers on their practice of blocking or throttling this plan would
Also, get rid of the general conduct standard
Which was created in 2015 to allow the FCC to regulate the behavior of ISPs instead the power of police in the ISPs will go
To the FTC the Federal Trade Commission and while the FTC cannot stop ISP is from throttling they can hold them to whatever decision they
Announce on it now stemming from this we saw Verizon released a statement
They said we're very encouraged by Chairman Paes announcement today that the FCC will move forward next month to restore the successful light-touch
regulatory framework for Internet services on the other side Google issued a statement saying the FCC's net neutrality rules are working well for
Consumers, and we're disappointed in the proposal released today
And we also saw the acting chairman of the FTC release a statement saying the FTC stands ready to protect broadband subscribers from anti-competitive
Unfair or deceptive acts and practices just as we protect consumers in the rest of the internet ecosystem
Ultimately where we are right now is it looks like net neutrality is going to die December 14 that is very much believed that in
A three-to-two vote PI's proposal will pass and then the already too powerful have even more power
It's really insane to me that this is going to happen the market has power when there are choices
And they're just not enough choices
There's some places where people literally only have one option and now the FCC is going to make it so that those guys can charge
Tolls for other companies though and which is hey great for them to get to maximize the revenue and new exciting ways all the meanwhile
Stifling new independent innovation icing out any new company new service that doesn't want to partner up with them is someone who in general
Doesn't want the government in all the different aspects of my life
there are certain places like this one where it is important that there are regulations and there there are ways to keep people safe the
Fact that a person and and people in power do not see how this is predatory in nature for consumers for everyday people is
Ridiculous, this is a dark day for innovation. This is a dark day for small business
It is a dark day for
Consumers and trust me when I say this the initial banned from this will start out as a trickle
But though the true bad is coming, but if there is a last chance for hope here
It is Congress and you you watching right now
calling your Congress person and
Demanding they do the right thing here and to make it super easy you can just go to battle for the Netcom
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Then let's talk about longtime broadcaster
Charlie Rose in the news and the reason for that is yesterday the Washington Post published a piece detailing misconduct between Charlie Rose and eight
women according to the post Rose made unwanted sexual
Advances toward them including lewd phone calls walking around naked and their presence or groping their breasts buttocks or genital areas Rose's accusers either worked
With or aspired to work with him on his PBS show Charlie Rose from the late
1990s to 2011 at the times of these alleged incidents the women's ages range between
21 to
37 well three of the accusers gave their names five asked to remain anonymous one of the accusers Rio Bravo who in 2007 was a
29 year old graduate student she said several months into her internship with Rose. He offered her side gig at his home in Bellport
He said that while working with him
He repeatedly groped her sometimes forcefully one of the most troubling
Accusations was from an unnamed woman who said she was applying for a job said Rose invited her to his home said after sitting by
The pool he said he needed change after getting his pants
Wet she says he returned wearing an open bathrobe with nothing underneath
She then says Rose tries to put his hand down her pants saying she was scared she was frozen
She pushed his hands away said she was crying the entire time to which she says Rose said quote baby. Oh, baby
Why are you crying as far as why the women said they never reported these incidents there were various reasons
Some it was because of fear of the power. He had over their careers some mention his volatile temper
I mentioned just being embarrassed
Ashamed or not really knowing who to turn to according to Amy Brittain one of the journalists who reported on this piece use such power
Over the show he owns the show there is no human
Resources department in the Charlie Rose show many of these women said that even if they wanted to file an official complaint it wouldn't even
Know who to go to and actually two of the women said they made longtime executive producer Yvette Vega
aware of Rose's inappropriate behavior one saying they were told that's just Charlie being
Charlie and in a statement to the pose Vega said quote. I should have stood up for them
I failed it is crushing
I deeply regret
Helping them also after this article The Washington Post said that more than he does in women had reached out to them to share their
Stories as well also after the Washington Post article three women shared their story with Business Insider E. Stories stemming from
2005-2008 2010 one of those involving unwanted touching New York Times spoke with two women who said that Charlie Rose tried to kiss them without
their permission Charlie Rose then released a statement to these allegations in my 45 years in journalism
I've prided myself on being an advocate for the careers of the women with whom I have worked nevertheless in the past few days claims
Have been made about my behavior towards some former female colleagues
It is essential that these women know I hear them and that I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior
I am greatly embarrassed
I have behaved in sensitively at times and I accept responsibility for that
So I do not believe all of these allegations are accurate
I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings even though I now realize I was mistaken
I have learned a great deal as a result of these events and I hope others will too all of us including me are coming
to a newer and deeper recognition of the pain caused by
Conduct in the past and have come to a profound new respect for women in their lives and to that I just have to give
My response to that Charlie. You're 75. It's already a little bit of a stretch to call someone who's 20 to 30
You know a kid a lot of people are still somewhat forgiving and open to second chances for people
Under 30 because you know you don't know who you are at that time
75 saying that all of a sudden now now is when you have a new respect for women in their lives also the
Allegation that you tried to jam your hand down some girl who is trying to get a jobs pants
And she's crying while that's happening
I don't know if there is a bigger stop sign if you put your hand down someone's pants and their
Reaction seems to be crying, it doesn't seem reasonable to describe that situation as pursuing shared feelings also
It's incredibly important for people in positions of power to realize that if they try and do something with someone
That's trying to get a job someone that works for them, and they are potentially the gatekeeper for in their industry
That's not that you're on the same level a relationship is or is primed to get very very abusive
It's incredibly important the people in those positions know that now it's especially important for for all the new people
Jumping into positions of power to realize that as well doesn't make it right
It is one thing to mess up when when you're younger, but if there's something that we can all get from this
Hopefully it is
education but back to the story hours after the
Accusation Charlie Rose was suspended EBS News PR releasing the statement Charlie Rose is suspended immediately while we look into this matter
Allegations are extremely disturbing and we take them very seriously
And then we learned this morning that Charlie Rose was fired and the president of CBS News
David Rhodes announced this in an email to staff saying a short time ago
We terminated Charlie Rose's employment with CBS News effective
Immediately just followed the revelation yesterday of extremely disturbing an intolerable behavior said to have revolved around his PBS program despite
Charlie's important journalistic contribution to our news division there is absolutely nothing more important in this or any
organization than ensuring a safe professional workplace also last second update PBS has also released a statement saying in light of yesterday's
revelations PBS has terminated its relationship with Charlie Rose and canceled distribution of his programs
And that's where we are with this story right now where I want to leave
This is once again doubling down on this being a teachable moment because while this may seem like common sense to you
It's not common sense to everyone the reason I say that is there are many people who have a different opinion on what sexual harassment
Is there was a really interesting report in The Economist last week and inside there was a chart based on polling based on location age?
gender of what constitutes sexual
Harassment the orange lines are women the blue lines are men percentages represent
Respondents stating always or usually to the question would you consider it sexual harassment if a man who is not a romantic partner did the?
Following to a woman the results were really interesting for the sake of time
I'm just gonna stick to the results from the United States
And here are the results for each situation requesting a sexual favor making sexual jokes placing hand on lower back looking at breasts
Wolf-whistling commenting on attractiveness asking to go for a drink
Well we see from that is there is no clear consensus other than on requesting a sexual favor or making a sexual joke pretty much
Everything else has a downward slope what I want to do is kind of pass this poll on to you
What is your takeaway from obviously in cases where you have allegations against Charlie Rose that he was putting
hands on women who swing his hands on thighs a woman that worked for him trying to put his hand down the pants of a
Woman that was trying to get a job for a minute
That's obvious where I've been seeing the biggest amount of debate is specifically on the commenting on
Attractiveness part between 25 to 50 percent of the youngest surveyed were saying that commenting on someone's attractiveness is sexual harassment
Obviously this polling would benefit from more contact right the commenting on attractiveness is that saying you look beautiful in that dress
Or is it nice. I asked one of those seems far more obvious but to sum it both
Maybe include it also makes me think of a joke of easy pop up in comedy a lot of stand-up in various iterations
That's that in some cases the difference between sexual harassment and a successful
Interaction with a woman is salesmanship and attractiveness the idea that a woman's going to have a different reaction to a dress elbow or Ryan
Gosling saying something then if I said something then the kind of weird guy at your job says something once again
I'm not saying what's right or wrong
I just I want to throw that out there
And I'd love to know your thoughts on this and that's actually where I'm going to end today's show and remember if you liked this
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