 My name is Daniel Del Solar. I've been the general manager of a public radio station and PR affiliate in San Francisco. I've also been the general manager of a community oriented public television station PBS affiliate in Philadelphia. I've had a long time association with media. I've been a volunteer. I've been basically a citizen programmer. I believe that the internet has a prospect of going in one of two directions. One, to assist in the complete suppression of creativity. And two, to assist and be a vital function of democracy. And which path is taken will depend much on the people's thinking, how much creative thinking is allowed in this whole process of the internet. The internet is our current whoop-de-doo toy. It's roughly equivalent in our society to the steam engine of a few hundred years ago. What I'm saying is, complete control over every thought you have is now a technical capacity in reality. The capacity for citizens to contribute and to maintain an excellent information base is something that is vital for the prospects of democracy. Unless the internet is useful and vital in this regard, we are doomed as a civilization to be subjected by the internet because it will provide absolute and total control. For more, we need to establish, basically, as a department of commerce, we need to have a department of information or a department of knowledge or a department of democracy, where real information about our history, about our prospects, about our alternatives are presented. Rather than the current horse race of just the loudest and wealthiest having their messages broadcast and being assumed as real by the majority of our society, to the detriment of the planet and of the people. This is Daniel Del Solar. You can reach me at DanielDel Solar at gmail.com.