This Machine Kills Fascists

 

                                                    This land was made for you and me.        

The more research I do on Net Neutrality, the more I come to realize how little people really know about it.  As someone often knee-deep in Internet culture, the issue of Net Neutrality seemed pervasive to me.  I've come to realize, at the risk of sounding excessively paranoid, that the lack of attention Net Neutrality has received is probably due to the telecommunications industries having such control over public discourse.  Granted, as it stands, service providers are not permitted to stifle, limit, or block any net traffic over another, but news organizations are another monster entirely.  NBC, now merged with Comcast, has a very new and very large stake in the failure of Net Neutrality, so as a result, it wouldn't be surprising to see much less coverage, if any at all.

As communication services like Twitter, Facebook, and Blogger literally revolutionize the way we spread news and information, power over the media is slowly being taken away from television networks and newspapers and handed back to the general public.  Telecoms realize that their only option for future survival is to grab the Internet by the tubes.  Social networking and blog sites are the best tools we have to defend the Internet, and freedom itself.

Right now, more than ever, it is imperative the word about Net Neutrality be spread.  The Internet, which has changed the world so dramatically in its short life so far, is not broken, and does not need fixed.  Don't let complacency and insatiable corporate greed dismantle the financial and political future of the United States in front of our very eyes.