WITH ONE INTRODUCTION TO RULE THEM ALL...

I am going to admit something very important.

So important, in fact, it could possibly change the world forever. Okay, well, maybe that's a fairly lofty assumption, but hey, a girl can dream, right?

The modern world is powered by the Internet.

If you listen closely, you can hear the golf-clatter creak and groan of old men and women rising up to roar in unison, WE DON'T NEED THE INTERNET! WHEN WE WERE KIDS THE BEST WE HAD WAS THE RADIO! WE HAD TO LEARN HOW TO DISCERN WORDS FROM TINNY STATIC! AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!

Thanks, Grandma, but this blog isn't for you. It's for people like me - but not too close to like me because then I'd just hate them - and those people are young adults who are genuinely aware of the hustle and bustle of the world around them. With us, we were born with the Internet. The Internet has become our go-to for anything and everything that we could need, and we're all the better for it ... when it's used properly, that is. But not everything about the Internet is so ho-hum. In order to access the Internet, you have to pay for the service through an Internet Service Provider - your Verizons, your AT&Ts, and (god forbid) your Comcasts, among others. Your money, their pockets, and you get the Internet. Sounds like a fairly good deal, right? I mean, the Internet is the Internet. Personally, I'd pay a small fortune for access to it.

But, alas, we live in America, land of the business empire and industry.

Their latest target for sucking away all individuality, uniqueness, and innovation from?

The Internet.(1)

Now, I feel as if I were a mother bear with one of her cubs being threatened. NO! NOT THE INTERNET, YOU BASTARD HUNTERS! YOU CAN'T SWINDLE THE INTERNET AWAY FROM ME! And, quite, they haven't - yet. But they have tried numerous times. The idea that keeps the villainous corporate barons at bay from devouring all they can from the Internet to line their already seemingly infinite coffers is one single idea. An idea so simple yet so profound it ought to ring true in both the ears of every consumer of the Internet. It doesn't take an activist to understand its importance. It begins with an N, and ends in a Y...

Face the wrath of NET NEUTRALITY!

Net neutrality has been the core essence of all that makes the Internet the Internet, and with it comes the profound sense of that it will protect us from those that seek to infringe upon it all for the sake of good business. But then that begs a very certain question, now doesn't it, dear reader? Well, yes.

If Net Neutrality is so important, then what the hell is it?

I'm glad you asked.

Footnotes:
(1): Ammori, Marvin. "A Case for Net Neutrality," par. 8