Rob Dubinski

The Market Place Of Ideas

In my mind, the glory of our economic system is the unregulated power of a market that (in theory) runs on the laws of supply and demand. So to, the glory of the internet is made possible by unregulated net neutrality. Independent media thrives in a "marketplace of ideas" that values the opinions of a student from a Big Ten University just the same as a columnist writing for an Ad Heavy mainstream magazine. We need equal access to ideas, regardless of who is paying for them!! If the free market of ideas that is so alive on the internet dies, it will be even more tragic then if our free economic market were to be killed off by over-regulation from the government. Indeed, equal power to express ideas, report news, and share wisdom with each other is in many ways a cornerstone of the "American Dream", to compromise this for the sake of corporate profits would be a betrayal of the rich tradition of intellectual freedom that makes this country so great.