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Exponent

Episode 133 — Two Terrible Options

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss the net neutrality debate and why both sides of the issue at hand involve making difficult tradeoffs; the bigger problem is broken governance. Please listen to the end! Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II — Stratechery Ben Thompson: “Light Touch”, Cable, and DSL; The Broadband Tradeoff; The Importance of Antitrust — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Netflix and Net Neutrality — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Net Neutrality and Zero Rating — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Comcast’s Inevitable Data Caps, T-Mobile Offers Free Video, America Versus … Continue reading Episode 133 — Two Terrible Options

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

0:04.6

Frazzled.

0:07.2

Yeah, to be honest, based on what I've been seeing on Twitter, I'm not entirely surprised.

0:13.9

It's been quite the week. It has been quite the week, which we will get to in just a moment.

0:18.3

But first, we are excited to have WordPress.com as our sponsor.

0:22.5

Whether you'd like to build a personal blog, a business site, or both creating your website

0:26.1

on WordPress.com helps others find you, remember you, and connect with you.

0:30.2

You don't need experience.

0:31.1

They guide you through the process from start to finish and take care of the technical side

0:33.9

to get your site up and running.

0:35.1

Their customer support team is made up of WordPress experts eager to help you get the most from your site.

0:38.6

And they're available to help 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday and weekends.

0:42.4

Plans start at just $4 a month.

0:44.0

And all plans include a custom domain name for the life of the plan.

0:47.8

So go to WordPress.com slash exponent to get 15% off your website today.

0:52.0

That's WordPress.com slash exponent.

0:55.5

And hopefully, you know, the ISPs won't be charging WordPress to visit that site.

1:01.4

I was going to make a comment about how wonderful it is to have a sponsor that's enabling a free and open internet.

1:06.6

But that also wants, too.

1:09.0

I preempted your joke.

1:12.1

I made your joke before the fact.

1:14.8

Yeah, that's right.

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