Tell Big Media and Congress: Hands Off Our Internet

[helderheid]

http://www.freepress.net/action/neutrality

Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now

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.

THIS MESSAGE

Dear (Company CEO):

I strongly urge you to cease all plans to violate the principle of network neutrality. Your control of the "pipes" on which information travels does not give you the right to dictate what I can do online.

As a subscriber to your service, I demand that your company guarantee that all Internet users are entitled to:

1. Access the Internet content of our choice;

2. Run online applications and services of our choice;

3. Connect our choice of devices; and

4. Have fair competition among network, application, service and content providers.

From its beginnings, the Internet was built on a cooperative, democratic ideal. Your only job as a network provider is to move data between users. You must not block or discriminate against any of the legal content and services available online.

A copy of this letter has been sent to my elected representatives in Washington to ensure that Congress and the FCC work to put enforceable network neutrality principles into our telecommunications laws and regulations.

(Your comment here)

Sincerely,

(Your name)
(Your address)

click here to sign: http://www.freepress.net/action/neutrality

[helderheid]

1. .

[graywarrior]

2. Done

and thanks

[AX10]

3. Thanks.

The Internet must remain free!

[Fredda Weinberg]

4. Actually, no ...

The Internet I grew up with was neither democratic nor cooperative. It began with a defensive department initiative which spread to academia and was about to flower with the public library system when the Communications Act handed it to private industry.

Now, the franchises are controlled by local political entities - your city, county or state.

If you don't like it ... blame Clinton and Gore.

How can we make progress if we don't remember the past?

[helderheid]

6. I do blame Clinton Gore and I think they regret what they did.

[Soloflecks]

5. Waste of paper.

A copy of this letter has been sent to my elected representatives in Washington to ensure that Congress and the FCC work to put enforceable network neutrality principles into our telecommunications laws and regulations.


Oh, yeah, like that's worked well so far. They'll probably laugh their asses off at that line.

[helderheid]

8. I'm sure they laugh their asses off about much that we do. I'm not

giving up.

[mom cat]

7. Done..This is crucial...thanks.

[helderheid]

9. kick