Throbbing Hive with Wits' John Moe: Net Neutrality; 'Sesame Street' parodies
March 03, 2015
Every Tuesday at 7:30am Wits host John Moe stops into the Morning Show to share the latest news in Technology.
This week, John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley about Net neutrality and about some awesome Sesame Street parodies. Here's what John discussed:
Net Neutrality
The short story is last Thursday the FCC approved regulating Internet service as a public utility, so that effectively blocked companies from paying for fast lanes on the Internet and making other lanes slow lanes. There are going to be legal challenges, but what's coming out of this is it really was a grassroots effort. The New York Times reported:
"A swarm of small players, like Tumblr, Etsy, BoingBoing and Reddit, overwhelmed the giants of the broadband world, Comcast, Verizon Communications and Time Warner Cable. Two of the biggest players on the Internet, Amazon and Google, largely stayed in the background, while smaller participants — some household names like Twitter and Netflix, others far more obscure, like Chess.com and Urban Dictionary — mobilized a grass-roots crusade."
Sesame Street has been crushing it with parodies lately
Some of the most trenchant satire is coming out of Sesame Street right now. The show has always been good at this, but two recent entries are particularly timely:
John Moe hosts Wits at the Fitzgerald Theater. Check out video, photos and archived audio from previous shows and buy tickets for the current season at the Wits page. He also hosts the Home Dunk podcast from Infinite Guest.
