Hear me out
April 18, 2008 on 10:00 am | In entertainment, rant | 2 CommentsOkay, you guys know that I’m totally not an activist in any sense of the word. Well, I never was anyway. But the older I get, the more I care about things in regards to politics, which can be bothersome because apathy is so much more convenient. But I strongly urge you guys to go to save the internet.com and click on “Tell Congress to Save the Internet” and to do so forthwith.
So here’s why. It’s all about keeping Net Neutrality. I’ll quote the site’s information because they’re better at saying it than me:
The consequences of a world without Net Neutrality would be devastating. Innovation would be stifled, competition limited, and access to information restricted. Consumer choice and the free market would be sacrificed to the interests of a few corporate executives.
On the Internet, consumers are in ultimate control — deciding between content, applications and services available anywhere, no matter who owns the network. There’s no middleman. But without Net Neutrality, the Internet will look more like cable TV. Network owners will decide which channels, content and applications are available; consumers will have to choose from their menu.
The free and open Internet brings with it the revolutionary possibility that any Internet site could have the reach of a TV or radio station. The loss of Net Neutrality would end this unparalleled opportunity for freedom of expression.
The Internet has always been driven by innovation. Web sites and services succeeded or failed on their own merit. Without Net Neutrality, decisions now made collectively by millions of users will be made in corporate boardrooms. The choice we face now is whether we can choose the content and services we want, or whether the broadband barons will choose for us.
Okay, I realize that that was long, but still. I’ll summarize it for you. Net neutrality = good. Big companies making it so that if you pay a lot, you keep getting fast service (that you’re used to) and you can go to the sites that you’ve always been able to go to, and if you pay less, your service will be slow and you will be limited as to what sites you can visit = bad. It would mean taking away the freedom that we presently have online. So go to go to save the internet.com. Do something.