protect Network Neutrality!!! Save the internet!!!

http://action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called "Network neutrality" that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. Your local library shouldn’t have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to have its Web site open quickly on your computer.

Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. If the public doesn't speak up now, Congress will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign by telephone and cable companies that want to decide what you do, where you go, and what you watch online.

This isn’t just speculation -- we've already seen what happens elsewhere when the Internet's gatekeepers get too much control. Last year, Canada's version of AT&T -- Telus -- blocked their Internet customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to workers with whom Telus was negotiating. And Shaw, a major Canadian cable company, charges an extra $10 a month to subscribers who dare to use a competing Internet telephone service.

 

thanks for that. im gonna send that to some people. sounds horrible and very believable... they all ready make every where else like that... makes sense the internet would be next

 

come on people, seriously..

 

baaahhhh

 

hey i replied but anyways dont expect a lot of people in THIS forum to care but there is an activism or protest forum or something that you might get replies on.

 

Hey bud, thaks for the heads up. That's bogus. Imagine how low on the priority list the fora would be since they don't hit us with a shitload of advertisements and they don't even turn a profit. I'm not too worried about the local library vs. barnes and noble, but don't fuck with my ability to use the fora. I live here dammit.