Sunday, June 11, 2006

Goddamnit, Rodney...

This is exactly the kind of shit that makes me hate politicians so much. Face it, folks: We live in a world where our thoughts, emotions, and preferences are sold to the highest bidding corporations.

The whole point of the internet is that it's a primordial soup of thought. Good things, bad things, everything gets vented out here. Sure, most of the "discussion" that goes on through the internet consists of calling people and their mothers disparaging names, but you really can learn a lot if you have access to all of the tools.

I don't like to think that I'm being denied something that can further my knowledge. I can't fathom being blocked from Wikipedia, or having Google load at 28.8 speed just because they didn't pay their protection money on time. I'm not an alarmist by nature, but DAMN this scares me.

I've been raised with a near X-Files-level paranoia regarding media companies (want to sit in one spot for a few hours? Ask my dad what he thinks about the telecoms.), and this just proves it for me. Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch will be able to decide which news I get on the internet now, instead of just on TV. I stoped watching TV news for this exact reason, choosing to read around three news sites a day to try and balance everything out.

As I've said, I'm not an alarmist, and I'm not a partisan. I hate both political parties equally and the fact that Net Neutrality got voted down by plenty of people from both sides supports my cynicism. In the end, they're all for sale regardless of their campaign promises.

It's still got to pass the Senate, so there's still time. I'll try a combination of email and telephone this time. I know it's like throwing a rock at an atom bomb, but I can't give up on this country yet. There has to be someone out there who remembers the people who voted them in to office...If I give up...Then I've lost before I started...
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