Public forum...

For me, the Internet is the biggest public forum there is by far. That's why is important to keep the Internet free and open to everyone to use.

The Internet is a place where ideas can be shared with the widest amount of people, in the least amount of time possible. Also, it allows people who are in distant geographical point to be in contact and share information and ideas between them.

For many, is a valuable because is the only way they have to access knowhow and to communicate with people that they couldn't reach in any other way. The Internet really bring the world together by allowing many people communicate and get to know things and people that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

This exchange of ideas between those different people can do more to bring people together than any other effort, mainly because people come together in an spontaneous way. So, they build relationships build from this interactions that can become strong and help build a wider and clearer view of the world they live in.

With this in mind, the Internet may be more valuable that the sum of its parts.

It also help to build stronger communities, since it facilitates the interaction by individuals with a wider part of the community they live in. They can coordinate actions, and share information with almost everyone in the community in the matter of minutes or hours, facilitating the response to whatever might be happening in almost real time.

It truly empowers the grassroots movements, since it gives them access to a way to organize and keep in touch with it's members in ways that traditional media can't.

The Internet has the potential to give more power to the people than we imagine, if we work to keep it free and open. And, if we use it in a way that we can organize effectively to take the actions needed to achieve our goals.

Let's make the Internet the forum of the people. The place where we come to share ideas, plan,and build a better place for us and our children.