Why does the FCC and Government Hate the idea of a free Internet?

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29. But not if you take the theft out, and that is the problem. Charges for no value, or less

than you deserve, is nothing but theft by ass clown criminals.

If one thinks they need profit, fine, make it a coop. Don't get rid of the profit, redistribute it. The Basque did that and have their own university, business that spawn other businesses, and lower unemployment than the rest of Spain. Hurting some now, but still less than others.

But profit isn't imperative for improvement. Sometimes there is a mission that rises above the search for profit.

Much of the Internet runs on Linux servers, and there is no money in that. Yet it just keeps getting better, with features that keep performance in mind. There are even newer server products out on the market under that name, all gratis.

It's a small sample, but so is one's heart. Hugely important.

Those servers resemble commodities, appliances that provide more for less. This would be doing that to the Internet connection. All appliances aren't created equal, yes, but that doesn't mean we stop trying.

Much of what is going on with the Internet is the creation of huge data centers with lots of virtual servers that can be turned up and down on demand, reducing the costs of having one's own center, sometimes providing more in security and service than a small business can do on its own.

As that continues the market for desktops is changing drastically. A person with standard internet connectivity may soon only need a 3-pack of tablets dropped in by the local utility drone, and it gives one all the tv, phone, medical care, education, shopping, employment, etc, they need, and a consumer market that you can put 3-d pictures in front of. With a smell attachment. (Others, I hope, will work to disorganize what is going on and build something better, but that's another post).

Note: That alone is going to save us a tremendous amount of energy that we would otherwise use to move people and goods around, and we will save the costs, especially environmental, that would have been associated with that. Then we will buy stuff from China and encourage them to keep pumping pollution out that comes here and settles. We smart.

That's gonna take great connectivity, but it would transform life as we know it. It is why google and others reach out and wire whole projects. There is every reason to think that we could all profit from resources being expended to make that ubiquitous.

Business, medical care, and education (along with a number of others) are moving to those connections, and where they have really good connectivity you have the potential of lower what we spend as a country in health care costs by billions. Perhaps the growing trillion dollar student loan debt that's gonna fall on the American people like a lead brick could be minimized.

We are already spending our profit. <-- Maybe we should go another direction, spend it on ourselves for a change.

But the other thing is a planet that is almost certainly getting ready to see some cataclysmic events that we are woefully under-prepared for, and likely causing ourselves. (when they find our bones in the tarpits and stick them in a museum they are going to title it "The Stuipid People&quot

The survival of hundreds of millions of people could be enhanced if we could communicate all the needed information in near instantaneous time in such events. The movement of food, the production of water, the production of food, teaching people how to eat new things, dealing with public panic...all of that could be vastly improved with a freely-accessed internet that's available in just a plug on the wall or through the air.

The profit to people would be vastly more than it could be to any corp.

On the other hand, you might have a point.