Thanks to the prompts provided by KOS, I crafted the following letter to the FCC's Chairman Wheeler with regard to creating high speed internet lanes. I am learning, ever so slowly, what it means to be politically active, with a little help from my friends.
Dear Chairman Wheeler:
I find your most recent public comments with regard to high speed internet access somewhat troubling. This is due to a failure to speak to the interests of common folks like myself, individuals who daily rely on functional internet access for email and shopping, for news and socializing, and very importantly paying bills in a timely manner. I am of the opinion that you should be using the FCC's Title II authority to promote broadband expansion AND (this is the essential part) to prevent big business, specifically the ruthlessly competing Telecoms, from creating fast and slow lanes on the internet, thereby subjecting a globally public network to various measures of quality on the basis of income in-e-quality. E-Quality should be a right on the Global Net, protected like any other Public Utility.
I also believe wholeheartedly that you should reject out of hand the Comcast-Time Warner merger. If you want to promote competition, you don’t allow 2 of the 4 national broadband providers to merge. The United States already has too many pseudo-monopolies that we are failing to deal with in sufficient measure. By subjecting an internet that really is "Too Big To Fail" to market manipulations and fluctuations is to do a disservice to the greater public interest.
Very truly yours,
John Ennis
[Perhaps I should have included a plug for the Surveillance State's need for reliable internet access as well.]
Best,
John