We have had serious problems with the neutrality of the net since the beginning.

How do you access the world wide web?

Most of use through Google or some other search engine.

How much of the net do they actually spider and allow access to? 11%.

What sites show up in the top end of search results? Those who can afford to pay for a search engine optimization program.

Who gets to publish on the internet? Not the individual. Most cable internet service providers block port 80. This is the port that web sites are served on. What this means is that I can not run a web server from my home computer and "broadcast" my information on to the net in a way that people can easily find it. I would have to pay for hosting. If I want to serve rich media content like youtube, then I have to pay very expensive server and bandwidth fees. This means that publishing on the net is increasing tilted towards those who can afford to publish. This in turn limits the voice and content of the net to information and content that is marketable or assumes a profit. We don't notice the disparity now because a blog looks very similar to Salon.com. Text, images, users. The future holds much richer media types like video, and also much more complex application layers to the sites. In a short time, the published content on the net will heavily skew to the big players who can afford the bandwidth, the servers, the development costs, corporate attorneys, and the search engine optimization programs. Add content packet delivery tolls on top and "we the people" definitely don't have equality in net access and publishing rights.

You don't win this with logic. You don't have the time to re-educate them. You can't point out what the administration is doing wrong. And you don't capture the imagination of the American public, by telling them there is no such thing as the "war on terror."

Use the terminology the public understands and shape it to your desired outcome. Most Americans don't understand the constitution, how our government works, where Iraq is on a map etc...This is why they: don't care if we enact draconian laws and rescind freedoms, are willing to capitulate to a vote fraud coup in 2000, and think Iraq and Al Qaeda are one and the same.

Americans tend to respond as consumers. Repetition ingrains the brand and people buy on a feeling. Fear is a feeling that drives action. This is why the republicans use it as a core to their strategy. Fight fire with fire. Expand on that feeling of fear. Let them know that things are getting worse in Iraq. Let them know that Iran is on the brink of acquiring nuclear weapons and we can't do anything about that because Bush shot his wad in Iraq. Ramp up the North Korean threat. Drive home the idea that our homeland security is still very weak. Shout to the public that the 911 commission made a report that has been ignored by the administration. Global warming is a looming threat to the planet! Osama Bin Laden is still out there and Bush hasn't caught him. Push, push, push the fear. Play the angle that the administration is being run by "outsiders," a cabal of special oil interests and military contractor CEOs. The administration are the minions of a military/energy complex and do not have the interests of Americans at heart. The train has jumped the tracks. Even if the dumb but good natured idiot called Bush wanted to right things, he couldn't because control of this country and it's foreign policy is out of his hands. If he was in control, then Iran wouldn't be processing uranium, now would it?

Now who do we have over here? Democrat candidate A. He sees what is going on here. He sees this group of outsiders burrowing their way into the heart of American power. He sees how the actions of the last years are not in our interests or done for our safety and are the result of a sinister attempt by outsiders to usurp the Presidency for outsider gain! Time has come to take our country back from this small group with their agenda. Secure our country. Track down the terrorists that threaten us and prosecute them in courts of law. Eliminate the insidious threat of the military/energy complex by rebuilding the pentagon, the intelligence agencies and our standing army to be a civilian army supplied and run by our government and not by contractors. And the biggest idea...drum roll please...loose our dependency on oil!!! If you tell them your plan is to put the middle east (and thus the terrorists and Iran) out of business by killing the demand for oil, they will get behind you 100%. They would cherish the ironic justice of the middle east having no money.

Then you are left with candidate A vs. the cowboy oilman and his Halliburton contractor vice president. Goodbye neocons.

Hello and welcome Gary. I look forward to your future articles.

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