Joseph Taylor

Please protect web Freedoms

Please! The web is the last place on earth where a genius in a garage can change the world. Please! Don't hand more control to huge corporations who only want to squeeze every last dime out of people.

The neutrality, the freedom - this is the only reason the web has grown so large, the only reason so many advances are able to be made around the globe, the only reason people can be so quickly informed, the only way we can ever expect true information transparency moving forward.

The big corporations have already dug their claws into the very fabric of our lives. They already destroy Mom and Pop businesses which have been the backbone of America for so long. Please! Net Neutrality is essential to free speech, equal opportunity and economic innovation in America. Since the FCC removed this basic protection in 2005, the top executives of phone and cable companies have stated their intention to become the Internet's gatekeepers and to discriminate against Web sites that don't pay their added tolls.

This fundamental change would end the open Internet as we know it. It would damage my ability to connect with others, share information and participate in our 21st century democracy and economy. The FCC must ensure that broadband providers do not block, interfere with or discriminate against any lawful Internet traffic based on its ownership, source or destination.