Robbing the poor to give to the rich
Honestly, the whole idea of losing this "net neutrality" concept kind of scares me. I mean, how is doing something like that going to help anyone do anything except for having a handful of multi-billion dollar corporations line their pockets with even more money from the average consumer? The thing I'm mostly referring to here is the phone companies wanting to essentially take ownership of the internet because they're the ones who laid down the physical groundwork for it to happen, according to the Humanity Lobotomy documentary video. Charging for access to something is one thing, but controlling the use of it is totally different. It would be like if the water company not only charged you a flat rate for your water supply, but also additional fees for drinking a glass of water, taking a shower, or cooking with water, and they could also place restrictions on certain uses of your water. While it is true that at least some form of regulation should be imposed on internet usage to control illegal activities (the same way you can still be rightfully persecuted for, say, using water you rightfully paid for to drown someone or spray at innocent bystanders with a fire hose), all giving away control of the internet to these corporations is going to do is take away the voices of millions of people just so a few people who have the money to pay for it can monopolize that mode of communication. I really don't think the death of free communication on the internet is as close as that video would let you believe necessarily, but I also believe that it's certainly not too much of a stretch of the imagination either. I go on the internet because I love how it lets me interact with people I might never have the opportunity to meet in real life. I sincerely hope the online world never becomes a one way street ruled by corporations.