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Laura Preble's avatar

Amen! Thank you for reading!

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RPat's avatar

Laura, thank you for your thought-provoking piece.

I awake frequently to wonder and to check if the internet is down. Because if the internet is down, it could be the beginning of the end of life as we know it. Our weakest link—the first target of an attack against everything we know.

I almost never use credit cards any more. I haven’t carried cash for years (except for tips—which is another social/economic weakness altogether), and rarely buy anything anywhere I can’t use ApplePay—on my Apple Watch! When was the last time you wrote a check?! How much of our social exchange takes place on line? I shop on line. Order and pay for fast food and coffee on line, even if it’s to be picked up. We are indeed vulnerable and you are wise to point it out.

Finally, inasmuch as the internet is to society as the great highway system is to transportation, think about REGULATION. Highway speed, direction, weights, dangerous cargo, driver age, training according to vehicle type, stop signs, distractions, and even convenience signage are REGULATED!

Let’s don’t even talk about GUNS. If a society cannot regulate guns—weapons—how in the name of all that is good, can we expect to regulate our next biggest lifeline, the INTERNET? Not until Congress can begin to work for the common good instead of power mongering, and SCOTUS begins to rule for the good of all the people, and we maintain an executive branch for the people, will we make progress.

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