This may sound dramatic, but I honestly think the Net Neutrality debate is one of the most important issues we face as a generation, right up there with that whole "global warming" thing.
Maybe I'll feel differently when a giant iceburg is literally melting on my doorstep, but if you asked me on some days, I really don't see the point of saving the planet if we're not going to make the most of our time here. So anytime I see, hear, read, or think that something is getting in the way of our general advancement as a civilization, I get really sad - plain and simple.
Like anything else though, a cause really isn't a cause until Hollywood gets involved, and Net Neutrality advocates can rest assured that the profile of this argument may be on the rise. That's right everyone - Hollywood is pissed, and it just sent Justine Bateman to Capitol Hill to speak for all of us who think the net shouldn't be a toll road.
As frustrated as I am with the process, and while it may take a cycle of getting it wrong before we realize how to do it right - I am convinced that "simple and open" will win over "closed and difficult" in the end.
I have to believe that, or else I'm just going to sit on my porch and wait for the iceburg.
Anyway, I encourage you all to familiarize yourselves with this debate, pick up a cyber picket sign, and join the fight to keep ourselves moving forward as a society of innovators.
(And Hollywood, proud of you for stepping up here, but come on. Would it have killed you to send Clooney?)
