User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-172.0.169.95-20140911071952

This is rediculous. So not only do we, as consumers, have to pay exorbitant rates for our internet to begin with, but now the ISPs want to make web hosts pay as well? Enough is enough! Nikola Tesla found a way to make energy free to the people worldwide, I bet the same could be done with data. What we need is for this generation of 20-30 something tech saavy, video game playing slackers (myself included, obviously) to take control and free the people! Sure, some may scream "first-world problems", but isn't affordable, neigh free, knowledge and communication a right for all people? Could you imagine the potential for development worldwide if everyone, everywhere had access to what we have without having to pay out the wazoo for it? Could you imagine what other advances societies could make if the money allocated for these things could be put into agriculture, education, healthcare? At the moment this may be only about the internet in the United States, I get that, but if legislation such as this were to pass what would be next? Think about it.

I am getting off of my soapbox now ~Melissa Gizewski