Average Joe And Saving The Internet

Pull Average Joe to the side (the next time you see him at the pub or wherever Joe haunts these days) and float the phrase "Network Neutrality" by him; if for nothing else, to watch the blankness wash over him. He has little use for the phrase, though it has the potential to affect him greatly. For Joe, the Internet is still largely an abstract. He likes email and Google, and the few useful and entertaining websites he visits. But he couldn't tell you how or why it works the way it does, nor does he really care. He is even surprised to learn that the telecommunications giants like AT&T and Verizon do not already control it. There is broadband access at home only because his daughter demanded it, and he went through BellSouth (which isn't even BellSouth anymore, he thinks) to get it. Getting the word out to Joe about the heated battle in Congress over contest to attract viral video submission from supporters of the initiative for use in a campaign called "here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web