Network Neutrality (in case you've been vacationing under a rock...) is mucho caliente.
I'm staring at a half-empty cup on this one. I believe that the triumvirate of corporations, politicians, and miscellaneous special interest groups (the mainstream media, so-called experts and bureaucrats, etc.) have all but obliterated any chance the "common wo(man)" has in benefiting from low-cost/high quality or no-strings-attached airwaves, networks, utilities, and/or public services.
Big $$$ walks and little people talk, right? Thank our friendly Republicrat$ and Demican$ (as it so happens, the Christian Colaition is pro net neutrality).
Lots of people in the Bay Area bitch about the big bully cable provider and the lack of competition in this market. But how many of us know who really let it happen? Where's the paper trail (and this includes dollar bills)? I suspect the when net neutrality is defeated (yes, I'm a dispositional pessimist), the whole thing will become a nebulous cobweb of ambiguous perpetrators.
There are only two choices left in the U.S. today. Coke & Pepsi.
According to Project Censored, the Main$tream media has put a lid on stories about net neutrality (does this give us any inkling of where their $ympathie$ lie?). Most people in the U.S. know more about Brittney and Lindsay's underwear choices than about net neutrality.
Well, I guess I'm a pessimist when it comes to believing that David will win Goliath in the net neutrality game and any other anti-trust, anti-monopoly, censorship, and corruption scenario.
I'd love to be proven wrong, though.
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