I believe we’re moving completely toward solar electricity, battery, electrical & human powered transportation, on-demand local manufacturing, open & free technology and information and communication, at home or neighbourhood based veggie production, and widespread free knowledge about how to take preventative health measures based upon your own personal genetic & environmental makeup, along with freely available & easily accessible mental health services for all.  Much less pollution of the mind, body, spirit, and ecosystem.  Much less profiting via passively (or actively) enforced ignorance which renders marketability to products previously unneeded to maintain health & happiness.

An important pillar of our evolution as a society is the ability to share the knowledge, this information, this discussion, about how to make our world a better place while learning how to free ourselves from the grips of those who profit from our lack of knowledge in our current consumerist culture.

Which is why the issue of Inter net Neutrality concerns me. I’m concerned about living in a world, where only that information for which telecoms have received a “premium price” is allowed to be shared or accessed. I am also concerned about paying a “premium price” for the information that I, or others, want to access.  There are many who would pay a “premium price” so that their information, and not others, is more accessible; you can imagine who they might be and what might motivate them. To me, not having Internet Neutrality leaves much too great a possibility of oppressed information. If we’re going to let oligopolies control our telecommunications infrastructure, we should be considering ways to ensure that all communication is treated as equal. I believe that this is a core feature of a free, healthy, democratic society.

Please, take some time to research Net Neutrality, while asking yourself critically why this is important.  Please come to understand the battles that are going on right now, over Net Neutrality.  It’s one of the most important battles for freedom of our age.

Please consider discussing this matter with everyone, including your local governmental representatives, perhaps even letting them know how you feel about it.

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