| What a fucking joke this is turning into... Just over a century ago, power companies in Ontario were gouging consumers left and right, leading to the Conservative (up until the 1980s and the rise of the hard right under Frank Miller and then Mike Harris, the Conservatives were left of the Liberals in provincial politics) government of James P. Whitney to create Ontario Hydro as a means of ensuring that those who provide an essential utility and part of our infrastructure would not be able to hold us hostage to their demands.
The Internet has become a cornerstone of our everyday lives, our way of doing business, and our infrastructure, and rather than treating it as such, the government and its regulatory hacks have decided that provisioning access to the Internet ought to be treated as just another business.
If this attitude continues, countries that treat the Internet as infrastructure rather than as a tool by which certain elites can control our lives and hold society hostage, including such communist hotbeds as the People's Republic of South Korea and the Democratic Republic of Japan, are going to start humiliating us in all indexes pertaining to innovation and to quality of life. |
