Doc on the attempts to fence in the Open Range

On a more serious note than usual... the Future of the Internet

An important read

Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes | Linux Journal

I'd skip over much of the comments section
Doc : maybe do some "moderating" of the comments to keep to relevant themes?

Then, From George Dyson on Google (aka Borg)
Edge: TURING'S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson

I use the term Borg in a reference, not to "resistance is futile" but to the ability to absorb nearly anything.

Rumors of Google buying up Dark Fiber and setting up free WiFi may be the "end around" in addressing the Telco/CableCo monopoly moves.

Maybe the fears that Doc speaks of will be less relevant?

George : "My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. Everyone was busy carving one stone here and another stone there, with some invisible architect getting everything to fit. The mood was playful, yet there was a palpable reverence in the air. "We are not scanning all those books to be read by people," explained one of my hosts after my talk. "We are scanning them to be read by an AI."

and

"Whether we're talking about John Cage's idea of "the mind we all share" or H.G. Well's "World Brain", Google has its act together and are at the precipice of astonishing changes in human communication...and ultimately, in our sense of who or what we are. And like nearly all science-driven, technological developments, governments can only play catch-up as no one is going to get to vote for Google's changes, and the current laws, written in a pre-digital age, don't address the new situation."

Powerful stuff