The internet has been the basis of our daily lives because thanks to the invention of the internet, many people began pursue their dreams, find their jobs, learn something new, making their voices heard, and every other stuff that made possible because of that. However, all that's about to change because recently, in the heart of Washington D.C., the capital city of the United States, a certain federal agency voted in favor of the heinous plot that will kill the internet once and for all. I'm talking about the dreaded RESTORE INTERNET ORDER PLAN.
Much to the irony of what it seems, this plan was made to the sole purpose of cannibalize the very classification that this agency said that it hinders the progress of every ISPs in America but for some liberals, this classification is important because it won't let ISPs block, throttle, or slow their favorite content down and then charge themselves more to get what they want. I wasn't aware of that until a handful of liberals yanking me down over this trending topic that hangs the fate of the internet ever since a certain agency's chairperson wanted to cannibalize this classification in favor of the so-called light-touch regulatory from the Clinton-era America of the 90's that some say, it flourished the internet until 2015, when that classification in question was imposed.
I never heard of the light-touch regulatory because I wasn't in America back then and even if I came in America since my childhood years with my Dad and siblings, I definitely never heard of it, even when our Seattle home was a bit fancy back then before now. However, what the historians did know that light-touch regulatory, which is part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act that both sides agree, promises that the internet should not be interfered by the Feds. In broad context, the government should keep their hands off the net.
Keeping the government hands off the net? That sounds nice but it can be troublesome for some who believes that the having government regulations on the net is the only means of consumer protection. Consumer protection aside, depending on which nation you're at, government regulatory on the internet can be good or bad, depending on the leadership, but the worst part of it is when the government takes some extreme measures to ruin your internet experience. Take a look at China. China is the worst offender of the internet because not only they prevent you access to popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter (in favor of their equivalents I don't know about) but also filtering search queries, especially the one about the Tiananmen Square or democracy, redirecting to the ruling Communist Party.
China aside, there are some countries that are worst offenders in the internet but I don't want to mention some of it or I could be in big trouble in some nations, mostly the ones from the Middle East. If I was there, they will going to behead me anyway.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, remember what I said about ISPs blocking, throttling and slowing down your internet experience now that the classification in question was stripped out by the agency in favor of light-touch approach? About that slowing part, it's starting to make sense now because the Philippines has that kind of experience. On my stay at the Philippines, I borrowed a Globe Tattoo portable wi-fi from my uncle and let me just say, that thing works fine at the start but later, it went from fine to worst because when that portable wi-fi reached its limit, it throttled and slowed my internet experience down, not blocking it, because Globe says it tries to limit our speeds for the sake of other users. That's the life of living in a country with the worst internet connection, which is the same of bearing the worst traffic condition, pause, in the world. I said the pause part, am I? Still, you get the point.
In today's world, it's hard to live between truth and ideals. While some say that stripping this very classification that keeps the internet afloat will ruin the lives of Americans, others believe that it makes the internet free and open for many generations to come, and between you and me, it's hard to trust someone who has the bigger heads and such suspicions gave us sleepless nights. The people who believe the stripping it will kill the internet for good and those who believe that it will make the internet, pause, great again, they're all just here to rattle our average minds into thinking which side are you on but let me tell you this; it's better to trust no one until truth and justice are real.
Without the internet, there will be no esports, no car shows, no E3, no autonomous cars, nothing. Nothing because of the agency voted in favor of repealing such classification and all hell breaks loose for ISPs to do whatever they want to make their customers kneel before them.
Sigh, I almost had it. I almost going to have a job training with someone I can trust until this very announcement regarding the demise of the internet rocked me like a hurricane. Now, how am I going to get the job I want now that the internet as we know it is officially dead? Let's not bog down on who's responsible for this because right now, it's time to clean up this mess and live with the new reality where internet in America as we know it is dead. Sure, America invented the internet but sadly, America killed it. That recent meeting I just witnessed shocked the hearts of many Americans and without it, there will be nothing left on their time and I find sympathy to these folks. The internet is officially dead but one day, there will be someone who will stand against this and bring the internet back to life for many people to come. Until then, this is the end of the world wide web as we know it.
Goodbye...
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