Culture Jamming

My second project is a spoof on a poster for the movie Junior with Arnold Schwartzenegger. I replaced the other character's with the heads of Comcast's Ceo, as the doctor, and the chairman of the FCC, as the onlooker. The idea revolves around an interesting debate happening right now over an idea held by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), among others like Google, called "net neutrality". The idea seems to be to keep the internet open to everyone and free of discrimination. Businesses like Comcast, who provide internet access say they should have the right to regulate the internet how they see fit. Comcast was recently sued by the FCC for slowing down the rate in which people could download from certain sites, like sites where people download movies. In April 2010 the courts ruled in favor of Comcast because of some deregulation of broadband in 2005. It seems to me that in the past regulations have been put in place to protect consumers from businesses who owned the infrastructure which their competitors had to use as well. From the railroads, to electric and water, businesses and utilities seem to have needed some kind of regulation...not to mention today's banking industry. But the internet is like a child that no one really knows how to care for, and the debate of who the caretaker will be is going on right now. In light of all of the irresponsibility of big business in the last 10 years, Enron, banks, it seems like a bad movie leaving the internet in the care of a cable company. Of course there's DSL and wireless, but those businesses have the same rights based on this recent ruling, to regulate content with broadband, rights that people fear will create discrimination because all these providers have their own products to keep competitive as well. People against this also fear it will destroy the idea of the internet which makes it a great open source for all information.