Deus ex machina

I have always been interested in the Revolutionary War. With the knowledge that Philadelphia played a huge role in the revolution, I decided to look at historical markers honoring the memory of that period of time. When I came across the marker for where Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was written, I knew I must work with it immediately. The original marker read as followed:

This marker is meant to represent a piece of literature that was part of what got the revolution started. This piece of literature would have never have been able to be printed with out our right to the freedom of press. In this piece, I try to bring the marker up to date with a current issue concerning our freedoms. Net neutrality, by it’s Wikipedia definition, is a ‘principal proposed for user access networks participating in the internet that advocates no restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as communication that is not unreasonably degraded by other traffic’. We stand to lose what we know as the the internet today if net neutrality vanishes. By keeping internet access discrimination free, we can maintain this amazing platform that not only allows everyone access to information, but also let’s them participate.

For more information about net neutrality, check out: http://www.savetheinternet.com/