How Washington will shape the Internet and Digital Rights
How Washington will shape the Internet - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com: “The most potent force shaping the future of the Internet is neither Mountain View’s Googleplex nor the Microsoft campus in Redmond. It’s rather a small army of Gucci-shod lobbyists on Washington’s K Street and the powerful legislators whose favor they curry.”
The government should stay away from the internet until it can understand it, but of course who am I kidding? How many bills do these assholes really understand? For the most part, lobbyists are going to ruin another free space (a neutral internet) by over representing the corporate interest. Expect serious counter-measures against corporations on the internet in the event that neutrality is revoked. As we’ve seen with the spread of pirating from MP3s to movies, the harder you squeeze freedom from internet users, the further they will go to find new freedoms. It’s a good time to be tech savvy.
I recommend you support these organizations:
Electronic Frountier Foundation
The Pirate Party - U.S.A.
The Pirate Party - Sweden