Terry Baca

Keep the Internet away from the Corporatocracy

Anytime laws are passed to "limit" vehicles of free speech, trade and commerce, they are passed to create direct, influential avenues to the mass citizenry of these United States. They are passed to eliminate competition, dissenting opinion, and the diverse complex thought essential to keeping the lawmakers and corporations in check in the first place.
The Internet must remain open and free to every citizen. It must not come under any control or manipulation by private or public interests. Every other vehicle of mass communication and influence already has (Television/cable, Radio, Newspapers), and the Internet is the last means that this democratic republic has left for the people to participate in the economy, the society and the political system as individuals.
Any attempt to explain away the outright suspension of the first amendment by corporations (that did not pay for the infrastructure in the first place) is futile. Those sites deemed "bad", such as pornography or security threats, will still be available no matter how many security features are implemented by the corporate net police. There hasn't been any progress stopping downloads or piracy trading on "warez" sites, and there won't be when the big 3 get a hold of it. Instead, we will be increasingly charged and taxed, monitored and recorded, and influenced and brainwashed by a corporate conglomerate with no soul willing to sell our lives for a dollar.
The citizens paid for the fiber via direct and indirect taxes. Corporations do not own it. Politicians do not own it. The people own it. Big Brother corporatocracy, stay away from the Internet.