We're not dead, and a post from my Facebook on Net Neutrality.

Finals are next week, and thus the lack of posting. However, for your enjoyment, here is a post from my Facebook notes on Net Neutrality. I felt it was pretty well-written, and it illustrates the whole issue quite well. Also, this blog isn't meant to be political, this is just an issue I'm a little...passionate about.

Ok, I'll break it down. The status quo:
So you have Comcast, a cable company. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that Myspace becomes a 'product' of Comcast. Myspace gives Comcast a cut of the ad profits, and Comcast gives them cheaper service. Comcast is trying to find ways to make more profit, so it looks at Facebook, fierce competitor to Myspace. Rather than make the same deal, they decide to slow internet traffic going to and from Facebook to a crawl, and Facebook servers connected to Comcast internet service has their bill hiked up Mt. Everest and back.

People that use Facebook end up doing one of two things. They either stop using it, or they switch to an internet service like AT&T, Verizon, or Qwest(or whichever). If they do switch, they run the risk of different sites being on the 'blacklist,' and have to go through the grueling process of figuring out which things to uninstall, having people come and install the modem and services, etc.

Any company(I mean any company) that is seen as a competitor could easily be wiped out by the ISPs deciding to implement this same idea. Charge them more, and slow their internet down to a crawl. If they partnered with Bing, they could just slow all internet traffic to Google from comcast users down.

Net neutrality is intended to protect everyone from such a policy. It is not intended to control traffic, but to free it up. This policy is intended to stop a corporate takeover of the internet.
I am not a democrat, I am not a republican. It wouldn't matter, because it is not those two parties in power. It is corporatists, working for corporations and their rights. Not People, but faceless businesses.

If you really, truly want Microsoft and Walmart to be the power behind the power, then be my guest, have fun with your false freedom. If you understand that corporations are not people then I urge you to fight for the first amendment. Fight for our right to see, do, think, say, write, blog, film, and be who we want, regardless of what Corporations want us to think. Fight back against corporate media, and win back the America they've slowly been buying from us for the last 10 years.