The Net Neutrality Debate

Net neutrality is the principle that would keep the government from regulating the Internet, allowing it to remain self-regulated.

The senate will review the bill in Sept. If the senate approves the bill, it will give the government the power to shut off and regulate the Internet, at their discretion. This means that the government will be able to deny access to certain websites, delete websites, and tax web browsers.

Politicians in Washington are defending the controversial bill, pushing to implement it by the end of the year.

But open Internet advocates have accused the government of not being honest about the bills true intentions, charging that the bill is a direct violation of our constitutional rights and that it gives unnecessary power to government.

In response to these concerns, President Obama said on CNN, “ We must protect the internet from a potential terrorist attack. We must keep the Internet safe, and that’s what my administration intends on doing” - an inspired piece of marketing genius that cunningly associates itself with “our safety”, while strategically arresting any potential thoughts of relevant suspicion.

Since the mid 1990s the Internet has become a communications phenomenon, perhaps the most influential technological advancement in history. Since then, a quiet war has raged in Washington over the extent to which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would regulate the vastly expanding medium.

Laura Mendoza, (31) an 11th grade English teacher in Los Angeles said, “I’m worried. As teachers, we already walk a fine line of what we are allowed to let into the classroom. If the government takes away net neutrality; then these kids are really screwed”

Ending Net Neutrality would limit the revolutionary act of citizen journalism, the main form of journalism that has been shown to successfully combat government corruption in the past.

It would also seek to put an end to the distribution of independent media altogether, while bombarding the population with information that has been hand picked by agents of the establishment.

Millions of people have turned to blogs and alternative media, in an attempt escape the corporate lies and spin.

The corporate media monopoly is weak and losing its strangle upon the attention of its sobering followers. This is why the government is militantly pushing for the end of net neutrality and trying to replace it with a new Internet, a highly surveilled and policed Internet.

If net neutrality is ended, alternative voices and ideas will be silenced, allowing massive corporations and evil men to dominate once again.

Welcome to history!