Give the Fish the Keys

Give the Fish the Keys
Number	2169
Broadcast Date	February 12, 2014
Episode Length	27:45
Hosts	Tom Merritt
Guests	Jeff Cannata

Jeff Cannata joins us to talk about the FCC’s new commitment to Net Neutrality. Should you believe it? Fear it? Ignore it? Plus a Flappy Bert chaser. Yes, you read that correctly.

Guest

• Jeff Cannata

Headlines

• Apple plans to introduce a new Apple TV set-top box by April

Bloomberg reports Apple plans to introduce a new Apple TV set-top box as early as April. The company is negotiating with Time Warner Cable and other partners to add video content. The idea is to have the box available for sale by the end of the year, though problems striking deals could still delay it. Oh wait— I’m sorry— I’m reading a story from last year— wait no from 2012— OH no, no this is from today. It’s so hard to tell with these Apple TV rumors.

• FCC Chairmen says agency is working to reinstate Net Neutrality protections

CNET reports that during a speech at the University of Colorado Law School, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said his agency is working on a plan to re-instate Net Neutrality protections. A Federal Appeals Court recently ruled that the FCC could regulate broadband providers but had used an incorrect legal justification in its Open Internet Order. Wheeler said: “…the Court of Appeals invited the Commission to act to preserve a free and open Internet. I accept that invitation, and in the coming days, I will be outlining how I propose to proceed.”

• Fish on Wheels” is a fish tank, a motorized go cart controlled by Arduino

The cart moves automatically in the direction the fish swim. Likely a demonstration of the companies image recognition prowess, we prefer to think it’s because somebody cared that fish get bored.

• No, wait. Flappy Bert is more important

News From You

• The European Commission has published a proposal for changes in Internet governance.

The proposal calls for the globalization of ICANN, the institution that manages domain names and numbers. It also proposes strengthening the Internet Governance Forum, promoting more transparency in Internet Policy and commitments to globalize key decision-making while safeguarding the open and unfragmented nature of the Internet. The Commission does not support handing over the keys to the International Telecommunications Unions as some countries have proposed, but prefers a multi-stakeholder approach.

Submitted by: t2t2

• More than 87,000 phone calls were placed to Congressional representatives, along with more than 182,000 emails

Nicole Perlroth at the New York Times, suggested a better response could have been had if the goals were clearer. Rather than the simple message of Stop SOPA, visitors were urged to fight one surveillance bill, the FISA Improvements Act, and support another, the USA Freedom Act.

Submitted by: KAPT_Kipper

Discussion

• Google’s Nest deal closes
• Jobs time capsule discovered
• Twitter redesign coming?
• Mozilla to show ads when users open new tabs

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Give the Fish the Keys

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