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Introduction: I'm an entrepreneur and a programmer. I've been fortunate to work in an industry that has seen incredible growth the past 10 years. It's amazing that an entrepreneur can launch services that reach millions of people with very, very small amounts of capital. Startups can compete with established services on a level playing field because the internet does not discriminate between different services. The internet is neutral. This has enabled an explosion of services that has provided massive amounts of value to the entire world. I'm not here to convince you of the importance of net neutrality. This has been done thoroughly here , here , here , and here . Instead I want to talk about a much deeper issue. Losing net neutrality would be extremely harmful to our society and our economy, and it's not hard to see this. And yet, the government seems to have a lot of trouble understanding this. The government could fix this problem instantly by reclassifying the internet from an "informat
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1 And yet, the government seems to have a lot of trouble understanding this. [sent-11, score-0.443]
2 The government could fix this problem instantly by reclassifying the internet from an "information service" to a "telecommunications service". [sent-12, score-0.542]
3 I believe that Lawrence Lessig has thoroughly and articulately elucidated the root cause of our government's seeming stupidity, and that anything less than fixing that root cause is a losing battle. [sent-17, score-0.437]
4 Our government has made what appears to be stupid decisions on many, many issues. [sent-20, score-0.607]
5 The government consistently and frequently extends copyrights on existing works, preventing those works from entering the public domain. [sent-22, score-0.542]
6 For most people, the government already has all the information needed to automatically fill out your taxes. [sent-26, score-0.522]
7 These are just simple and easy to understand examples, There are endless examples of terrible government decisions in climate change, healthcare, the lead up and response to the 2008 financial crisis, agricultural subsidies, and pretty much any area you can think of. [sent-31, score-0.532]
8 It's easy and convenient to conclude that these decisions are the result of members of our government being stupid. [sent-32, score-0.532]
9 It made me believe that's just the way government is, and we have to work around that to live our lives. [sent-35, score-0.694]
10 I believe that the decisions made by our elected officials are calculated and smart – from their perspective. [sent-40, score-0.463]
11 They want you to think they're dumb, that that's just the way government works. [sent-41, score-0.443]
12 I don't think anyone has done a better job at explaining what is going on with our government than he has. [sent-44, score-0.443]
13 So you end up with a government that represents the interests of the funders and not the people as a whole. [sent-52, score-0.889]
14 You end up with a government full of people who are good at catering to the interests of people who can give them the money to get elected/re-elected. [sent-53, score-0.942]
15 This would create many billions of campaign dollars every year, more than enough to spread the influence of money across the whole population. [sent-63, score-0.539]
16 Lessig has explained the influence of money in politics much better than I ever could, so check out his excellent TED talk and his extremely well-written book . [sent-64, score-0.707]
17 There's almost universal agreement that government is beholden to special interests, that the way campaigns are financed is hugely corrupting. [sent-66, score-0.584]
18 I don't want to live in a world where the government is constantly trying to trade off the public good for the benefit of a special few. [sent-71, score-0.591]
19 Instead I want to live in a world where the government represents and works for the people. [sent-72, score-0.695]
20 The MayDay PAC is raising money to get people elected who are committed to eliminating the unbalanced influence of special interests. [sent-80, score-0.72]
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