Topic: Greg Walden

The Rick Bright subcommittee hearing is described as a "fiasco" and a "sham" due to procedural confusion. Representative Greg Walden criticizes the committee for holding a hearing for a witness who is not officially representing the government nor clearly established as a whistleblower. The segment highlights the lack of traditional swearing-in of witnesses and the political theater surrounding the event.

Representative Greg Walden, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, called for Congress to "legislate the rules of the internet" to end regulatory uncertainty. The hosts highlight this as a clear admission of the government's intent to exert authority over the web. They play clips of FCC commissioners testifying on their definitions of an "open internet."

Vint Cerf, representing Google, testified before a Senate subcommittee regarding United Nations proposals for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to regulate the internet. Chairman Greg Walden warned that international regulatory regimes could break the internet by applying old telephone service rules to modern data networks. Cerf's self-identification as a "father of the internet" in his written testimony is criticized as elitist and arrogant.