Take My Internet, Please!

Would someone please come up with something new and better and FREE! These darn moguls want to charge for everything we do online, and frankly it's getting tiresome. Look, guys! If I'm not going to buy your newspapers off the news stand, why would I buy them online? Your magazines, too, for that matter.

It's bad enough that we have to pay for television programming that is mostly worthless just to catch a bit of entertainment or local news. No more free airwaves, are there? I mean, come on paying for three hours of programming a day, or for infomercials throughout the night and weekends. This is obscene.

Now they want to do it to the internet.

I remember when the net first came on the scene and how exciting it was to explore new things without someone shoving an ad in your face, or making you register with UPPER&lowercasepasswordsthatmusthavea!@#$%^&*(or123456789. Why do they care if my password is secure enough or not anyway?

I remember when information over the net was as free as if you had jaunted down to the local library. Not no more it ain't! Sure back then there were still some stuff you had to pay for, but it was your choice. Now there's little choice and soon there will be no choices. Pay to play or get lost is what they'll say.

Well they'll do what they want and so be it. I have enough faith in ingenuity that one day (hopefully soon) someone will come up with something that outdoes the internet and makes information free again. Even if only for a short while. Then when the greedy moguls exploit that venue for money something else will come along. And so on and so forth.

For now, take my internet, please!