Title: Why The Internet Should Be A Public Utility - PopularResistance.Org
Headings: Why The Internet Should Be A Public Utility
Why The Internet Should Be A Public Utility
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Content: it dramatically elevates our quality of life, best and truest when we all have free and equal access to it. It’s true that misused, the internet makes us unhappier and lonelier, a la Facebook. But it also makes it possible for us to enjoy art, science, literature, news, and each other to a degree never before possible in history. And that’s just life — not to mention work, which would scarcely be possible now without the net. Like electricity, sanitation, or power, the internet’s gains are vast, dramatic, and transformative — not just efficiency or productivity, but creativity, connection, growth, possibility. Can you imagine life without the net? Would you want to? These questions of the human good are deeper and subtler than American thought has come to suppose. The good is not something that the invisible hand can always ineluctably provide. America’s devotion to that hand has become a religion, empty of reason, blind to the world.