Net Neutrality

We were talking yesterday about Net Neutrality.  Imagine my surprise when a blog post by Senator Al Franken spoke on the subject of Net Neutrality.

Al Franken's position on net neutrality is this: we need it.  In this post he explains in very simple terms what net neutrality is and why and how it's under attack by those who want to let big corporations pay to have a "better spot" on the internet.

I agree with Franken. Here's the thing, competition is the most basic American principle.  Allowing media conglomerates to take over all of the stories on the internet (where most people get their news) we get a very one sided perspective of thing.  We need independent media, we need small start ups that are out digging for stories.  Net neutrality allows small start ups to have the same chance as media conglomerates to get their story out first.

Net neutrality is one of the more important parts of the internet and I think that it's something that we cannot let go.  Because as Franken says, it's not a government take over of the internet.  And really, not having net neutrality is way more of a government take over