The FCC’s decision to disregard Net Neutrality yesterday has left me little options except the one that I know as an American citizen and inherent capitalist: I will be taking my business and money elsewhere and leaving the internet, only to use public devices for minor access instead of actually paying these moguls. Let’s call it the “I don’t buy this” movement.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai also personally voted to sell your browser history in May of this year. Coupled with yesterday’s vote the FCC’s choices in recent months have fallen short. They have fallen short of protecting their own citizens privacy, and they have failed to protect their own citizens from a blatant attempt to capitalize on services that will contribute to marginalizing both open access to web resources as well as small business access on the web. Aside from this the newly founded ability to charge more for services will now continue to become a reality as time goes on. Sensationalists like the Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban want you to think that such attitudes towards capitalizing on communications are unfounded hysteria, but I ask how much farther will we go, if we’re willing to take away our own equal access as a society?
If you’re going to read anything else in this and haven’t already taken away something that will directly effect you: Do you really believe that your Netflix or other media subscriptions aren’t going to go up with a sudden leap or eventually come with a fee, after Comcast literally charged Netflix a fee already in the recent past that was questioned under Net Neutrality? With every law created one can argue a small piece of freedom is taken, and yesterday that happened at the expense of the American people.
