This week Senator Kevin Cramer joins The Ask Noah Show and we discuss net neutrality! It's a more complicated and nuanced issue than most people give it credit for. Our access to the internet these days is like running water.

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01:50 Senator Kevin Cramer Interview

Common Carrier - treat all traffic equally
Net Neutrality - ISPs must treat all traffic equally
History
- 1934 Title 2
- 1980 Computer 2 Policy
- 2002 Cable Broadband gets an exemption
- 2005 All ISPs ARE NOT common carrier
- 2015 ISPs ARE Common Carrier (Gov Take Over)
- 2017 Ajit Pai repeals net neutrality
If the infrastructure has been subsidized by tax dollars, should that infrastructure be common carrier?
Would it make more sense for this to be under the FTC rather than the FCC?
What would you say to people who only have one good choice for internet?
Ma Bell Sweet Heart deal
Chevron doctrine
Openness principles
- throttling
- blocking
- price discrimination
Blocking World of War Craft
ISP deals with apartment complexes to block other providers
Digital divide
Universal Service Funds
ISPs are independent businesses
What stops companies from putting smaller players in the "slow lane"
Bot Question - Also, aren't the ISP's notorious for promising expanding broadband in the past, but they deem arbitrary numbers as "enough" for consumers, yet countries like Sweden & South Korea are thriving with broadband putting the US to shame.
What impact if any do you believe net neutrality would have on ISP competition?
Do you think the Communications Act needs a complete overhaul to bring it in line with today's technology?
Should the federal or state government step in to break up local monopolies that are not serving their customers well?

42:00 Expand pfSense VLAN? - John

PFSense "automatic fix"
Subnet masking
check for a /24
reboot networking devices

47:38 Virtual pfSense? - Rhett

This works!
Steve did this for years
VHost goes down, internet goes down

49:26 Thoughts on Emergency Alerts - Chris

Third party service
Gov Regulated Service
There is no other option

51:20 News Wire

Samba 4.19.2 - Samba.org
Geany 2.0 - Geany
Peazip 9.5 - Peazip
Ardour 8.1 - Ardour
Virtualbox 7.0.12 - OMG Ubuntu
Firefox 119 - Mozilla
Moonlight 5.0 - GitHub
Real Time LInux RISC-V - Phoronix
Removing Qlogic 10GBE Support - Phoronix
Blackcat using Munchkin Linux VM - Bleeping Computer
TensorRT-LLM - EE Times
LLEMMA a LLM for Math - Venture Beat

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