This week’s reading on protocol I found primarily interesting due to its subtle rebuttal (interesting choice of words when reading aloud) of the general consensus that is: the internet is some kind of a chaotic, uncontrollable sea of waves ( at last that’s how I saw it when I had begun this course…). The reason contemporary culture isn’t generally perceived in this way also, is the codes and conventions that govern our actions within society. PROTOCOL. We do not formulate our actions based on pure randomness and completely unrestricted will. For instance. You get billed. You pay your bill. You avoid debt or fine. In the same way, the internet exists within such constraints, all categorized under the umbrella term of PROTOCOL. I read a great blog about this reading which takes the idea further in terms of Protocol allowing the internet a sense of true democracy or “communism” in its equalisation of different networks..