Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now

[Flabbergasted]

The CEOs of the largest cable and telephone companies are hatching a scheme that would give them control over what content you can view and what services you can use on the Internet.

Their plan would do away with the principle of "network neutrality" and shut down the open roadway we've come to expect on the Internet.

If big media companies are allowed to limit the fastest services to those who can pay their toll, upstart Web services, consumers, bloggers and new media makers alike all could be cut off from digital revolution.

When large media companies are left to their own devices, the result is always content and services that serve no one but themselves. An open and independent Internet is the antidote to these predatory practices.


Join tens of thousands of activists who are standing up to protect our Net freedoms. Tell the CEO's to stop treating our Internet as their fiefdom.

[lady lib]

1. Your personal info (name, address) is on this link.

You might want to remove it.

[sarcasmo]

2. Kick and Nom for the Government over stepping it's boundaries

Again. This will DESTROY the Internet as we know it, enjoy the last real freedom while you can.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Here is what Al Gore said about it on Martin Luther King's Day.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html

Forty years have passed since the majority of Americans adopted television as their principal source of information. And its dominance has now become so extensive that virtually all significant political communication now takes place within the confines of flickering 30-second television advertisements, and they’re not the Federalist Papers.

The political economy supported by these short but expensive television ads is as different from the vibrant politics of America's first century as those politics were different from the feudalism which thrived on the ignorance of the masses of people in the Dark Ages.

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Freedom of communication is an essential prerequisite for the restoration of the health of our democracy.

It is particularly important that the freedom of the Internet be protected against either the encroachment of government or efforts at control by large media conglomerates. The future of our democracy depends on it.

Kicked and nominated.




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[yurbud]

4. kick