To the Federal Communications Commission,

	It is my fervent belief that the Internet as a whole exists to fuel the ability of all people to grow, learn, and experience a world with a higher level of understanding and greater passion for knowing what the lives of others are like. The Internet allows us to share our stories with people from across the world, and to give new experiences to others so that they may know a different life then the one they have. The Internet allows all peoples a freedom that never existed before in our world and it must be fundamentally free and equal to all in it.

	Within the bounds of the Internet we all stand as equal no matter our age, race, sex, or level of income. An Internet where all people have equal oppertunity to speak and experience the world's mighty wealth of information, art, and diversity expands our borders in a way that has never been dreamed of in human history before our current age.

	The right to experience such as vast and ever changing thing as what the Internet provides has not existed for long, and yet it has been here since the birth of humanity.

	Long have we railed against the injustices of those who would judge us upon the things that the Internet allows us to act outside the bonds of, and to limit it in any way that allows one part to step on or over another is little different then giving a person advantages that another is denied because of something they cannot change or that has been innate to them. The Internet may be the greatest breeding ground of ideas ever, some of them are not so kind or generous, but others may lead us into a new and brighter future. To place a hold on it where the new may be strangled by the old is a crime against the future of our world.

	It is my hope that all people will come one day to know what it is like to reach out to another from across the world and know that both stand on equal footing in the world, but for now the closest to that we have is the openness that the Internet has granted us. It is the place where we are all what we make of ourselves first and what we were born as second, and it is where I find that we have the greatest hope for a peaceful and loving world.

Thank you for your time,
Ashley McCart