Known more notably for his role as frontman of the viral video and YouTube sensations OK Go and his perspective on being that very thing on a record label that wilfully disables the sharing functionality that made his group famous, Damian Kulash is now weighing in on an issue even more near and dear to his heart: net neutrality and the future of the web in a Washington Post editorial.
From his perspective, many of the negotiations taking place today that have the potential to strip the founding ideologies from the web and have real consequences on how future generations experience it; he relates these trying times to his experience of the music and record industries.
Kulash describes the Internet as “the purest marketplace for ideas that the world has ever seen, and the amazing power of such a level playing field has revolutionized everything. Google knows this better than anyone. It started in a garage and became an industry leader by having great ideas, not mountains of cash. And it’s wonderful: The Internet works! It rewards innovators such as Google, and it relegates protectionist, defensive, idea-squashing fogies such as record companies to the dustbin of history.
“Now that the Internet has been around long enough to have developed its own giants, though, we need to make sure they don’t ruin what’s great about the technology that made them. We need to make sure they don’t crush the idea industry the way the music giants crushed the music industry…†– Link here to read the complete story
