gene ralph

PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN

My story is related to the same story all Americans my age are familiar with. My/Our existence during this short time we've been placed here on earth has been punctuated by one hideous, inexcusable war after another. The role our country has played in practically every bloodbath occuring during the past 60 years has been enormous. We, as a human collective, have had very little input in determining who and what we, as a nation, decide to kill and why we must kill them. Through the internet, compassionate people, with no desire to harm anyone or anything, have a voice in matters of conscience and common sense. Major corporation TV programming, when one studies it's composition, is the very antithesis of a nationally compassionate mission here on this planet and beyond. Maintaining control of all the major information and news outlets allows entrenched industries to disseminate messages which favor their sponsor's products. When the end game is warfare, then any programming which espouses the use of force and the production of more weaponry becomes a tool which perpetuates this martial ideology on a national scale. Why is it so little programming presented by major corporation networks is devoted to the pursuance of peace on earth, good will towards men? As it is, only the internet, PBS, and a handful of public access TV/radio channels promote such peaceful ideals and objectives.

Net Neutrality is essential if messages of love, equality, and living in harmony with nature are to be promulgated to the masses. TV, because of who controls
the major channels, lacks the will. As broadband becomes more available, increasing numbers of people will have the opportunity to hear a broader, more diverse range of voices and messages. Since 2005, phone and cable companies have tried to establish themselves as the Internet’s gatekeepers and to discriminate against Web sites, services, messengers, and messages they don’t like.

This fundamental change would end the open Internet as we know it. It would damage our ability to connect with others, share information, promote and endorse a huge variety of innovative products and solutions to global problems. Congress and the FCC must ensure that broadband providers do not block, interfere with, or discriminate against my Internet choices. The future of the free-flowing Web depends upon it.