Sky Scarboro

No net freedom? sounds like I'm screwed!

This was my letter to my congressmen:

"Please act immediately to save the Internet. If the "net neutrality" of the internet is disrupted and big corporations take complete control over how we all use the internet, there will be revolts. I don't encourage or back up the idea of it, but there are a lot of people in the U.S. and the world that rely on the internet for many reasons.

Unlike the printing press and radio, and tv (all past free media devices that were taken over by big corporations) the internet is far reaching and never ending. At this point, I believe there are enough people that know so much about the internet and how it works, its functions and flaws, that it would be impossible anyways to completely take it over. Like the radio, people would make anew, make their own privately owned parts of the internet, but unlike the radio, it would be a much larger chunk. People would make their own internet.

The matter of overtaking the net is , I believe, too large a feat for any company to arise to. It would fail, and mass media and information sharing as we know it would cease to be.

It would not be much unlike a de-evolution of humankind, for, the internet has become part of what humanity is.

Thank you for your time."

I didn't mention my personal need/use of the internet, but my story is that I'm an aspiring graphic designer. For me, the internet is my outlet and my inlet, it's how I show my work to the world and how I can get clients so that I can make a living. Design and art are about all I have to go on, and without the internet, advertising would be rather tough. Heck, I wouldn't know half of what I know now had it not been for so many CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator and HTML tutorials I've found whilst browsing the net.

The net is very essential to people like me, and to be frank, I'd like to keep it the way it is. (maybe not so much smut, but hey, there's no free lunch, right?)

This is a great cause
-sky.