Well…just read that the FCC has ruled for the people of the US in classifying the internet as a utility that will limit what the ISP’s can do with it. What this means is that the giants like Verizon and others can’t charge more for faster speeds and must treat all traffic on the internet the same…what these companies wanted and what they bought so many republican legislators for was to be able to favor who they gave the fastest speeds to…effectively giving the ISP’s the power to control traffic they didn’t get paid extra to ensure the highest speeds for…essentially, they were lobbying to be able to slow down everyone’s internet that didn’t pay extortion to keep it working as it has since it’s inception…there was a second part of the decision today that I feel was just as important as the first, and that was that states can’t pass laws limiting who can be an ISP…something that the big providers again bought lots of repub legislators to do…to prevent municipalities across the country from competing with the crappy service that many of the big ISP’s provide in cities and means that lower cost internet and universal wifi will now be able to go forward without interference. This all came about with mobilization of the progressive community in the comment phase for the new regulations…with almost 2 million of those comments coming from Kos alone…so we finally won one…and this one really is a victory for the people…