The Ancient Library of Alexandria was finished in the 3rd century BC and was the compilation of the worlds collective knowledge, until Julius Caesar burned it to the ground in 48 BC. It still survived to some extent well after Caesars assault but always as a shadow of its former self, never again would the library be the apex of human knowledge. Nothing quite like the library ever existed again, until the mid 1980s when what we know now as The Internet was born from the primitive communication networks worked on by France, the UK and the USA since the 1960s. It was in the 1990s that The Internet evolved from being more than a place for scholars and research and began to become a place for all people, everywhere. Its become much more than a place of just knowledge, The Internet has become a haven for expression, creativity, and art. A place for those shunned by society to connect to the world they felt had betrayed them, a place for those without friends to find companionship, a place for those without someone to call theirs to find love. This place, this wonderful, strange, chaotic, and beautiful place not only holds the entire wealth of human knowledge and puts it at our finger tips: it also holds humanities hopes and dreams, its fears and eccentricities. Undoubtedly there is a large profit to be made in the regulation of The Internet, however is that really all there is to look at in this scenario? Is there no other way for everyone to walk away happy? Must this come down to us, the consumer, once again being hoisted up by the ankles and shaken until money falls out? In the end I am only a single, desperate voice of opposition however I sincerely doubt that these words are not without camaraderie. Furthermore I outright rejection the notion that out of the 2.4 billion people -over a third of the worlds population- that regularly use The Internet that I am the only one who cannot help but feel what can only be politely described as a monumentally righteous indignation at this attempt to strangle the freedom of this place. Tom Wheeler, this proposed rule of allowing ISPs to regulate the speed of data is nothing less than a torch of callous malevolence. Will you, just as Caesar before you, set ablaze this great library? It is with disquiet apprehension that I implore you to reconsider what you would do to this extension of the human condition.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:53:59 +0000
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