Elon Musk calls the internet "the nervous system of humanity".
An interesting metaphor.
The internet has been the driving force behind virtuality all innovation since its creation
and that exaggeration only proves to be more true as time goes on.
On a not-so-unrelated note, the Silicon Valley in California pulled in a higher GDP last
year than the rest of the United States.
And every company in that gentrified "valley" of prosperity (plus exactly the opposite)
makes or designs technology that uses the internet.
This..nervous system.
It's a network which connects every slice of humanity who's able to tap into it, and
so it's a natural framework for us to build the next technologies upon, to push our culture
and economy in directions that are completely unprecedented.
Actually that's already happened.
You could say there's a lot a lot of crazy shit going on in the early 21st century.
Since this strange threshold on the calendar was passed the number of billionaires more
than octupled.
Octupled.
That's a slightly pretentious way of saying it went up by more than 8 times.
Most of these are from Finance.
But a lot of them are from technology!
The revolution has happened and it's just gonna keep happening.
Exponentially faster and faster I might add.
The biggest titans of this decades-long scramble for innovation and sweet dollars all rely
on humanity's nervous system.
So does the bulk of society, in fact.
You rely on it to keep doing your thing.
I rely on it to keep doing mine.
Net Neutrality is now a buzzword at the center of this technoeconomicyberspaceual revolution
and it's a concept not looking to be law of land for long after the FCC votes on December
14th.
Net Neutrality is..technically an American issue...but America has the unfortunate position
of driving the global economy with our impressively sustained, capitalistic orgasms (our huge
corporations).
Therefore, the rules by which America's massive companies are allowed to play, plays
a huge role in the future of the global economy.
Net Neutrality is..one of those rules.
A rule not meant to keep you, the individual in check, but rather corporations.
The double N's is the main reason an internet service provider doesn't make websites they
own faster to access than the ones they don't.
In the 21st century, speed is everything.
Would you still go on youtube if it took three times as long to load as Verizon's mediocre
but probably passable streaming platform?
I bet you wouldn't!
And that's exactly what they want.
Anyone can make anything as slow and shitty as they want without Net Neutrality written
into established law...so long as they're the ones controlling your stream of bits to
and from the internet.
Your reality online will be the one they want to you see because what better way to maximize
profit?
This isn't a rant against massive corporations and it's certainly not one against capitalism.
Me and the other treesicle dudes are small business owners technically..and that means
we love true competition because it makes it possible to do what we do.
More than anything this video is a..big picture view of Net Neutrality and the new era of
cultural, social, and technological innovation it aims to protect.
Even if it fails to uphold next week, the idea itself won't die.
That's because the idea behind Net Neutrality is simple.
Simple and correct.
I'm talking about true competition.
A term I just made up but almost certainly exists in some econ book somewhere.
Indeed true competition is the key to almost everything western society holds dear.
True competition is when whoever has the "best idea" and a good enough execution of that
idea.."wins".
Being small has no advantage to being large, having "connections in the industry" isn't
a make or break requirement to getting recognized.
An individual or small group of them can have an idea, make a living off it and even potentially
dominate the entire market and get rich doing it.
That's the true goal of capitalism.
Not...dominating the market but having a free market so the best businessfied ideas bubble
to the top.
It's best for entrepreneurs, it's best you and it's best for me...who wouldn't
want the greatest, most dope stuff for the lowest price possible?
Probably some mouth breathing, hammer-sickl...ing communists!
Capitalism is a societal good when the self-interests of many individuals are allowed to compete
fairly for your dollar.
Indeed, somehow by everyone being selfish and getting what they want...society overall
gets what it wants.
That's how capitalism is supposed to work.
That's the invisible hand!
Don't think I'd leave you out of this Adam Smith.
Bringing it back to Net Neutrality, the main argument against keeping it the law of the
land is that it's government regulation of the free market.
It's an awkward mitten on the invisible hand.
Ajit Pai, head of the FCC, essentially used this same argument to justify his proposed
killing blow to Net Neutrality.
How could the double N's, enforced by the government not stifle innovation and keep
individuals and companies from pursuing their selfish interests to the collective benefit
of society?
Just look at this misleading data to see for yourself!
How could this law be anything more than bureaucratic gobledeegoop if it tells business doers what
they can and can't do?
What is the government if not a giant bureaucracy of paper pushers ever on the lookout to further
increase its large scale system of control?
With paperwork!
Really I think that's exactly what the government is.
And my good friends on the left should be more honest about that.
Likewise my dear acquaintances on the right could use more nuance in their thinking about
what the government's role is rather than sticking to the principal of less is always
more!
Remember that when it comes to serving our beloved capitalism, serving the idea that
the best, hardest working individuals are rewarded for their efforts, true competition
is what's needed to have a truly free market.
The state of the internet without Net Neutrality would be...you could call it false competition.
Internet service providers would be freer to compete how they please, but their newfound
abilities to maximize profit won't end up serving society, they'll end up serving
them.
Sure, the FCC won't be telling AT&T and Verizon how they can package the bytes and
therefore the websites available to you when you fire up your browser, so in that sense
the market will be freer.
But what does that mean for you?
If you're like over half of Americans, you have no choice in who your ISP is and only
38% of ya'll even have 2 options...one almost always being vastly inferior to the other
(DSL vs. cable).
That means Time Warner or I guess…
Spectrum can sell you internet services with just packages of websites.
Pay $15 for your favorite social media platforms!
And another $20 for your favorite video streaming platforms!
Also Netflix is $15 extra.
And even if you still have the whole internet...there's no guarantee it'll all load at the same
rate.
When a better service loads five times slower than a crappier one your ISP owns.. is that
true competition?
No.
But it's an extremely effective way to maximize profit.
Verizon owns go90...a pretty okay video streaming platform.
Better believe they'll be pushing as many eyeballs towards it as corporately possible
compared to...anything it may be trying to compete with youtube.
This isn't true competition because you don't have much of a choice in who your
internet provider is.
If you did, you could simply choose the one who wasn't trying to screw you and your
hard earned dollars over.
The reasons for your lack of ISP choice are rather complicated and when you sum them all
up you get the reason why google fiber stopped expanding it's awesomeness onto the world.
Somewhere between highly paid corporate legal teams, poorly thought-out government regulation,
and the cold reality that laying down internet infrastructure is expensive AF, you'll find
the reason competition between ISP's isn't great.
So then, the next best thing to keep the virtual marketplace of ideas as lucrative for the
little guy as possible, is keeping Net Neutrality intact.
Even if you've only got one choice in getting to the internet, at least everything you see
on there is treated equally.
And at least everything's available.
If you're all about the technoeconomicyberspaceual revolution, then support Net Neutrality.
Go to battleforthenet.com (link in the description) where it makes it super easy to write your
Congressman and even attend a protest in your area!
Or go to callmycongress.com where it's super easy to call your congressman.
We have until December 14th to make our voices heard.
If that doesn't work, then prepare to say goodbye to the internet as you know it, however
long that process may take.
There's always the next election cycle if the worst happens, but let's not rely on
backup plans shall we?
I'm Grant and, let's try to make a difference.
Bye everyone!
See you all next time.
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