Net Neutrality's Death Could Spark Populist Revolt

[Wilikon]

In our times, wrenching economic and technological change hardens life for the vast majority of Americans while an elite few prosper. Innovators like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg disrupt old industries, create news ones and ….

We know how the Gilded Age ended – in a populist uprising against monopolies, sparked by muckraking journalists and harnessed by a trust-busting president named Teddy Roosevelt. Who will be our era's T.R.? Well, a leader needs a cause. A better question might be, what will be the modern-day trust – a force so destructive and distant and deeply engrained that a sleepy public is stirred to revolt?

If history is a guide, our generation's Standard Oil, the populists' boogeyman, may be Comcast, Verizon and/or AT&T – the sprawling internet providers who, like Rockefeller and his railroad co-conspirators, could monopolize the price and quality of indispensable goods.

Yes, net neutrality could be the issue that inspires a Tech Age political revolution

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/net-neutrality-s-death-could-spark-populist-revolt-20140506

[TrailingComet]

Unlikely, most folks are lemmings and will take the stripping of their rights with barely a murmur
Hope I am wrong about this though!

[bryant.coleman]

Populist revolt? No chance. Most of the people in EU / US will sit beside their computer and type in their protests, rather than getting out there in the streets to show some real protest.

[5flags]

Just look at the lack of interest in the Snowden revelations. Americans in particular are so hopelessly enamoured with the state's control mechanisms that they would happily report for processing at a Soylent Green factory if asked.

[Elwar]

It would benefit a move to maidsafe in a way that the TARP bailouts benefited Bitcoin.

[CADguy]

i wish things like this could wake up the masses, but people are just too comfortable to be bothered with revolution