Internet Neutrality
We have not spent enough time here on the site or on the show discussing "Net Neutrality". Up to now and including today, the Internet has been a "free" space. We all have the ability to access anything we want at any time we want and at the speeds we choose to pay for through an Internet provider. Large telco companies in the United States want to impose certain restrictions on what, when, and how fast we see things on the Internet unless we agree to payer higher fees. Congress has been debating a "Net Neutrality Act" for a few years, but nothing has come of it as of yet.
We are posting the following videos with short explanations of Net Neutrality and some links for you to learn more about the act and its potential outcomes if it is or isn't passed. Let us know what you think and post your links to other sites with good information as well.
- Google's page on Net Neutrality
- Save the Internet: Fighting for Internet Freedom
- Wikipedia's Net Neutrality article
- Human Lobotomy: Save the Internet - Video
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Keep the net free .no speed for momey . we nead free speech that includs speech you do not like .without this we are slaves the rooman
Free Internet is indispensable to human destiny
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web, said, "The neutral communications medium is essential to our society. It is the basis of a fair competitive market economy. It is the basis of democracy, by which a community should decide what to do. It is the basis of science, by which humankind should decide what is true. Let us protect the neutrality of the net." I agree 110%, but would go a bit farther in my rhetoric.
A free Internet, and its attendant free inter-human communication, is completely indispensable to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of association. It allows and facilitates comparing of ideas, sharing of ideas, and acquisition of knowledge with which to better ourselves, both individually and collectively as a species. All of these things are absolutely indispensable to the ultimate achievement of the full spiritual, intellectual, and, yes, even physical, potential of humankind. The Internet is like a giant mind full of thoughts, some bad/destructive, some neutral/boring, but by far the most good/constructive, and, as a species possessing an individual free will and its inextricably attached inherent survival-need for freedom, we dare not allow some group of power-mad or money-mad (same type of sick critter) control freaks to dominate and control our minds and our access to learning by censoring (under some ruse such as "for the children" or "for the victims") or otherwise controlling the Internet. Long live a free and unregulated Internet! Long live the freedoms of thought, speech, and association!!!
Yes, you do need to discuss the subject of Internet Neutrality more, and thank you very, VERY much for posting the information on your wonderful website!
Your friend,
Patrick Henry, Jr.
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