I’ve been using the internet every day since the early ’90s. I remember the first time I ever saw an advertisement online—I was stupefied and I saw in an instant the direction the invaluable democratic resource that the internet could go—a bad and profiteering direction. Over the last 15 years I’ve watched as being an internet user has gone from being associated with geek-dom to being a part of every-day life. I have seen its empowering and edifying effects on people from all walks of life. I use my website and blog to tell the world about my opinions, knowledge, skills, expertise, pet peeves, etc. I know I have many avid readers and fans. I am disabled with MS; my contributions in the forms of my site and blog are nearly the only contributions I am able to make anymore. Don’t give me, or any other citizen, the short end of the stick. WE built the internet, not the big companies; it belongs to the people. If allowed, it will come to be one of the most valuable tools in a working democracy. If you let the Big Guys have rights to something that’s not even theirs, chalk one up for fascism—Mussolini himself said, “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Keep corporations where they belong—outside of the public sector.