Professor Geek

Thanks to the Lessig Blog for this one. Here is a short video that explains everything, especially how the telecomm companies want to take control of content on the Internet by simply pricing out current content providers (85% of which are you and me … private citizens, not large conglomerates).  The video aptly points out how newspapers went to a one-way communication medium, followed rapidly by radio, and then television.  Is the Internet next?  It will be if we permit it and if we let the government hand the keys to the kingdom over to those who received billions in tax breaks previously, only to fail to deliver the “last mile” fiber that was promised.  The telecomm companies claim that they own all their infrastructure, but when they receive tax breaks for doing something that they fail to produce, it seems to me that we have footed the bill as taxpayers and should have shared ownership of those resources.

The video only takes 5 minutes to watch and it’s well worth the time. 

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