This week on Blocked and Reported, the first of our two-part series revisiting net neutrality. First up, the early history and how internet activists (and Jon Oliver) manufactured a movement. <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071021033649/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21376597/">Comcast blocks some Internet traffic - Online World - MSNBC.com</a><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-10-201A1.pdf">2010 Open Internet Order</a><a target="_blank" href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/61167/9780472902453.pdf?sequence=1&#38;isAllowed=y">Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet</a><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140114171819/http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/3AF8B4D938CDEEA685257C6000532062/$file/11-1355-1474943.pdf">Verizon v FCC</a><a target="_blank" href="https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/05/fcc-commissioners-meet-with-protesters-before-net-neutrality-vote">FCC Commissioners Meet With Protesters Before Net Neutrality Vote - ABC News</a> This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe</a>

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