A reason to laugh and cry about the internets future

A reason to laugh:
Become a telecom revolutionary. FON has put together software for wireless routers with the aim of creating a large community based wifi network. You share your bandwidth you get to use the community wifi network. lets just call it the entrepreneurial socialism

FON via Gizmodo

A reason to cry:
We continue to see an assault on the open nature of the internet. Once again the large telecoms are looking to assert thier natural monopolies into the internet realm all in the name of saving us from spam. They propose a email postage fee to reach thier members quickly. Guess who will pocket that money.

Now is a good time to hassle members of the senate commerce committee if this upsets you. Especially if one of your congress whores are on it.

NY Times via BoingBoing
Senate Commerce Committee