Net Neutrality And The Continued Growing Power of "BIG"
The latest court ruling on Net Neutrality is really not surprising. It is a continuation of an economic trend favoring big business. In isolation this latest decision is, I believe, detrimental to economic development in general terms at a time when access to broadband and its associated app-derived services is becoming a human and business right. It should be a right to efficiently and effectively access the digital economy that at the end of the day is the DE FACTO ECONOMY and vehicle to the digital revolution for now and the next, well, whatever many years. But wait. This decision - when taken together with the other policy and legal decisions in the near past - really proves to be as chilling as a polar vortex. Let me mention just two: 1 1) Citizens United – Basically this decision opened the flood gates to corporate money to influence practically everything. Perhaps this decision by the courts was unduly influenced by the oceanic sized-pool of mo