Jonathan Rintels has written an article in the Huffington Post which is entitled: Big Media Continues to Fight Against Net Neutrality that is worth taking note of:

The goal of Big Media and the ISPs is nothing less than to turn today’s wide open Internet into a closed system more akin to cable television. The likely result: as we’ve documented in cable, independent and diverse voices and their content will be inexorably marginalized or silenced.

I’ve been ranting about this for some time now and my lungs are getting tired with shouting about it. It’s doubtful the larger mainstream news media will give this any attention since they are owned by the same media giants colluding with the ISPs so stifling Net Neutrality is perceived as being in their best interest and besides, they are too busy ignoring the story of how they’ve been shilling for the Pentagon.

The short-sighted pricks who are seeking to own and control the internet will, ultimately, doom themselves to cultural and fiscal irrelevance as the rest of the world dances past them (at higher bandwidths speeds too, thank you very much) with the unfortunate consequence of rendering the rest of us poor lackeys in North America as a bunch of ignorant peons incapable of voicing dissent, art or innovation.

Rintels points to a report from the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA>:

That openness [of the Internet] is threatened by the power of a small number of broadband providers to discriminate unilaterally against some categories of users or types of traffic or to accord preferential treatment to certain content providers over others, all under the ambiguous claim of “network management.” While these providers may have some legitimate issues related to the technical management of their networks, there have already been cases of different treatment of users and it is clear that there must be transparency, equal treatment and an avenue of redress when the providers’ private decisions trespass fair rights of others and the public interest. Thus, the issue is not whether government should regulate the Internet, but whether there will be effective oversight to prevent a handful of corporate giants from imposing their own version of private regulation to the public’s detriment.

This is a big fight that is going to affect how all of us are going to be able to communicate, thrive and survive in the coming decades. But we’re not hearing about it in the mainstream media because they’re part of the problem. Which only serves to emphasize how desperately important this issue is.

You are what you eat. They’re feeding us shit.

No thanks.

Cheers.

P. S. Apropos of the shamefully under-reported Pentagon propaganda scandal, here’s a great song posted on the Huff Post by Max & The Marginalized. Enjoy. Get angry. Do something.