Net neutrality

I can't say I'm all that surprised w/ the news of net neutrality. If anything, I feel that I have seen it coming for many years now -- maybe even since I was a youngin'. As I wrote on my Twitter account the other day, many of my childhood friends and I used to often joke that "..the internet was simply too fun, and too cheap, to be real". It always just seemed like something that was wildly out of place in this world. Everything was too easily accessible on it. Something always seemed plain "off" about the internet.

But of course, all those years ago, in the early 00's, the big 'secret' of the internet was that she was still relatively young. Cell phones back then, you might remember, did not access the Internet, and I have always personally been of the belief that the cell phones giving people access were what caused the greedier folks amongst us - like, say, Republicans - to finally take notice of the Internet, on a grander scale. To put it simply: Prior to the phones, many poor kids I knew, you might be shocked to know, hardly used the Internet. They were always "out and about" ...getting into trouble in reality...getting locked up in American prisons, etc. Then, the cell phones came out with high speed access to the net..and soon enough, those same kids were Internet nerds just like I had always been.

Sounds fun right? It sure does. And certainly is. For everyone except greedy old Republicans, of course. For them, poor kids smiling and having fun anywhere at all -- be it the internet or their own city etc--is a terrible, terrible thing. It is a thing that Republicans never want to see happen, because they hate common Americans w/ a very sincere hate. During Vietnam, they wanted to see them dead, for instance, and this death wish has not changed, it has just "been altered slightly".

Hence the moment all this cell phone access began, I'm convinced that so too did the gradual march towards Republicans realizing "something had to be done". The dismantling of the net neutrality laws that the former black president Barry Obama put into place will, in my opinion, perhaps just be the beginning. I have written before, a time or two, about just how terrible Republicans can make things on the Internet, if they are so inclined. They could censor the hell out of everything and anything that doesn't fit their view. It isn't hard to imagine and it is already happening, as we speak, in other countries that the Republicans admire for their "deep adherence to conservatism" . It especially isn't hard to imagine once you consider that they've already sterilized the whole country in reality anyways. The most important thing Republicans can do is to force God, as they believe him to be, down your throat, and also to make you feel like it's still the year 1850.

Drugs, prostitution, education, books, minorities ... all of these things exist in a sort of ridiculous ghetto of prohibition in the United States - thanks entirely to Republicans -- that functions at a scale no one else in the rest of the developed world can even imagine. As I always write: There are so many people in prison in the horror story that is the USA...because there are so many things that are crimes in the USA. So many things that are censored. Prohibited. Blocked.

 This will probably wind up being the same, eventually, for the internet - and it's another thing I often used to think as a boy, like I say. "One day...we'll log onto this thing, and nothing will be there. It'll all be blocked. Just a distant memory of the good, cheap fun we used to have..." This sad prediction is already beginning to come true w/ yesterdays news. I am not at all surprised. I am saddened like the rest of the Americans (at least the ones from the coastal cities that use Twitter, not them in the middle or the south) but I am not surprised. I have learned to never be surprised w/ the happenings of this nightmare country anymore... I just sort of sigh I guess. Maybe the blue states will somehow not get the worst of it when it does happen. Who knows...

So there it is though. Net neutrality. Something Obama tried to help us out w/. Something that the rest of the developing world was watching us to see what we did w/. The Republicans have destroyed it. Just like they destroyed the entire rest of our country as well. Good going. I hope to see you on the battlefield when the war begins eh...