Diana Hill
My life is the internet - Don't slow me down!
As a student, I'm always learning. I use the internet to discover new things everyday. I travel to hundreds of websites, most of them up kept by other people just like myself. We're not a huge corporation or even a small business for that matter. We're just regular students and that means most of us are broke or at the least struggling to make ends meet. But we love our freedom of speech, and we use the internet to communicate with each other. I'm not talking about just friends from the same city, I'm talking about friends from around the world! I know lots of people in South America, Mexico, Japan, Canada and the US too! Each of us has a website where we post new things that we learn; we post our hobbies and pastimes, pictures we've drawn as well as all the techniques to do them with. We learn from each other and it strengthens our ties to each other and to our world!
But, if the internet is restricted, we won't be able to connect with each other anymore. Prices will go up, and most of us can't even afford what we already have. We'll get slowed down, or even not have the ability to connect to websites from other countries because of the slowness.
Not just that, but what of all the other websites that provide us with immeasurable amounts of knowledge?! They'll all disappear too! Yesterday, I needed to know how to use a rivet machine. I looked it up on-line. The day before that, I needed to know what iguanas eat. I looked it up on-line. Today I needed to know how to dye wigs. I looked it up online. Who knows what I'll need to know tomorrow. But I have the freedom and the ability to get on-line and ask the whole world and find out! I can't imagine a world where I'm only allowed to ask a few select websites that have the ability to pay more money to be seen. Will they have the information I need? Will they charge to look at it? Will it be what I need? What if they're the only ones and I can't find out!
It's truly scary! It feels like websites are people and there is an inquiry to find out if Jews (websites that will be restricted) need to be marked with a star (slowed down).
I would think that in America, the land of the FREE!!! this shouldn't even be up for discussion! How is it in any way shape or form constitutional, or even right!
Please don't take away the freedom, joy and wonderful light that is a free internet. Television is already a shoddy idiot box through which only crap is blasted out to mainstream audiences. At least leave the internet alone and unrestricted for what is truly great: free speech and blossoming intelligence!
Please don't handicap the next generation!
