Unfortunately, I have decided to stop updating Save the Tubes in order to spend time pursuing other interests. Hopefully, this series of blog posts will remain available and viewable for some time to come.
Perhaps this blog will serve as a reference point to future generations. A primitive, two-dimensional snapshot of an era when the Internet, and the United States, was threatened by weak policy and insatiable corporate interests. Conversely, this blog could end up a reminder of a better time when the Internet wasn't such a high-cost, specialized commodity and Americans weren't stuck buying from, listening to, and investing in a handful of massive, politically entrenched corporations. Assuming, of course, that this blog will be accessible in that future.
However, I have high hopes for Net Neutrality in the US. Despite their cooperation with Verizon in combating the FCC proposal in December of 2010, Google will likely be the pivotal players in the Net Neutrality debate. An open, fair, and free Internet is what Google was built upon, and something they must continue to support in order to survive and thrive. A corporation like Comcast-NBC thrives through hundreds of various corporate channels and, as a result, seeks to lock down competition in order to support their various interests. A conglomerate like Comcast-NBC is massive, and imposing, but their size can easily work against them in this way. If Comcast-NBC relies on lobbying and policypushing to lay an unfair playing field for themselves to exploit, they are likely doomed to lose their many battles.
It has been enthralling and exhausting trying to keep up with Net Neutrality, but I feel it serves as both a brilliant microcosm of the information freedom debate and an undeniably critical moment for the United States economically and politically.
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