The Internet is no more capable than the infrastructures that carry it. Here in the U.S. most of the infrastructures that carry the Internet are owned by telephone and cable companies. Those companies are not only in a position to limit use of the Internet for purposes other than those they favor, but to reduce the Net itself to something less, called “broadband.”

via Doc Searls Weblog · Broadband vs. Internet.

I’m kicking around the idea of building an online “course” of sorts to help people understand how the Internet works.