Halfway through Craig Aaron's blog post on the future of the internet, I started to feel an awful like one of those "simpletons" that Aaron claims that the government says we are....
No, I've never really thought about net neutrality before
No, I never realized that the big telephone corporations of the world are involved in some mass conspiracy to get rid of it
Although I'm starting to get an inkling on why the United States may be starting to fall behind technologically (i.e. us simpletons)
Ah the guilt of ignorance...
But I do read the news! I do keep up with current events! But with all that is going on now - the campaign, the war in Iraq, the Middle East, the rise of China - is it any wonder that the story on net neutrality fell through the cracks? It's not exactly the sexiest topic - which brings me back to Aaron's post. He wants a "fundamental and truly public conversation about how the future of the Internet should look"by having the government agree to hold public forums - online and off - in every state and possibly district, before making "the monumental decisions that will shape the Internet for a generation."
Smashing idea Aaron - no, I'm not being sarcastic, I really think so. But in a country such as this, where it's amazing if half of all eligible voters turn out for elections, you might find yourself the only one in said forums. Maybe I'm just being a pessimist, maybe I'm just being a party pooper, but at the end of the day I just don't think the public is going to care that much - and that's the scary part.
Although, if something ever happened to Facebook...
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