MY TURN: Internet politics
Uyless Black
From its inception in the 1960s (and wide use since the 1980s), the internet was designed and implemented to treat all user traffic — email, file transport, even voice and video — equally, without regard to contents or volume. It is a concept called net neutrality. As a consequence, the internet has been apolitical, treating the traffic of both liberals and conservatives without regard to their ideologies.
Unfortunately, Washington’s high-level politicians do not leave “well enough” alone. Since the 1960s, “well enough” for the internet to be a technological wonder, almost effortless and nearly free to use.
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