But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Protocols, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the web;
and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Networking. The history of the present Internet is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the Network State.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. At the Physical layer, Internet Service Providers have refused their Assent to Free Speech, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good: https://www.theverge.com/23727238/net-neutrality-history-fcc-legislation