While I live and breathe the Internet will not go the way of radio

As some of you know, I made a little movie about media consolidation and what it did to radio and thus music (America:a broken record). And as Chray just said to me today, "How can you make your little indie film about consolidation and then want to go to Best Buy?" His perpetual effort at dogging me not withstanding - you can imagine my anxiety when I read about the efforts of big telecom and media companies now putting the Internet in their sights.

Their goal - to begin charging companies (small, large, whatever) to download their Fspaces faster then others. What does this mean? Essentially large businesses like say Google would be in the fast lane - while the sites that get built and nutured in garages and living rooms across the country would be in the lane behind the tractor that is for some godforsaken reason on the highway.

As savetheinternet.com explains: Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn't speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign.

What makes the web such a beautiful creation is that it is free and accessible to everyone. That it is created by more than just a corporation. It is what it is because it is NOT controlled by a mere few.

I need to write about this more indepthly and admit that I'm being lazy right now - but visit wearetheweb.org and watch the video to start getting your head in the game.

Because yes, it is game time.