Thank God for Nancy Pelosi?

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, recently made commented on FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's announcement concerning a free and open internet. Genachowski's stance on the issue of Net Neutrality favors the FCC's limitation of Internet Service Providers. He believes that the power of controlling who sees what on the internet should not be in the hands of the service providers, but in the FCC's. Pelosi wants to preserve the openness and freedom of what is the internet; she defines her position of the Net Neutrality bill to the House as in accordance with Genachowski's.

The bill would prevent internet service providers from acting as "traffic cops" on the net. The purpose of the bill was not to control and regulate the internet, but rather lay down rules to keep online engagement fair and equal for all users.

Sadly, on September 27, the bill was rejected by congressional leaders. The 269-152 vote fell largely along party lines. Ultimately, it was the Republican party which provided the majority of the distaste for the bill.

This video explains that informational media has taken a turn from social to privatized. Newsprint, radio, and even television were somewhat interactive in their beginnings. A printing press was moderately priced for their day (~$40,000 in our time), people could broadcast anything via the radio, and television used to be free to anyone with an antennae. All of these personal freedoms and opportunities for free speech have been stripped away from us by our governing bodies. Now we have the internet; a melting pot of ideas and opportunities, and we are being threatened with the removal of this as well? Why does anybody have to control the internet? Why do we have to turn such an awesome tool into a capitalistic money-generating source of revenue for ISP's?

The internet has become such an integral part of our lives to change is or charge for it may disrupt the good thing we have going.