The Scoop on Net Neutrality- Vote THIS TUESDAY

[Joanne98]

The Fate of the Internet will be voted on THIS TUESDAY. Have you done your part?

GOGB's diary :: ::
Net neutrality is complicated. At the core, though, is the question of whether the Internet will remain a level playing field. Millions of Americans depend on the Internet to express themselves, here on DailyKos, on YouTube, even on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

President Obama campaigned on the promise of Net Neutrality, but the rules that FCC Chairman Genachowski has proposed are not full Net Neutrality. Skype, Consumer Reports, Amazon, Credo, Netflix and Free Press agree that the proposed net neutrality rules are too weak to support.

Why?

Under the Genachowski proposal, cell carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile could legally block their customers from getting to DailyKos. More likely, they would block their customers from getting to Netflix, or Skype. Again, this would be legal; nobody to appeal to.
Under the Genachowski proposal, any Internet Service Provider (cable company, cell phone company, satellite, whatever) can take money from websites and give them a "fast lane." Imagine you start a new photo-sharing site to compete with Flickr, but Flickr has paid millions of dollars so that their photos load twice as fast. Imagine that Comcast, which sells cable television service, slows competitor Netflix down so much that it's unusable. Again, perfectly legal.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/18/929915/-The-Scoop-on-Net-NeutralityVote-THIS-TUESDAY

[FreakinDJ]

1. Net Neutrality is why they deregulated the Media

the logic at the time was since they dropped the "Fairness Doctrine" and "Deregulated Media Ownership" so creeps like Murdock could completely blanket entire swaths of the country with FUX New Propaganda, the Internet would provide a means for the average citizen to ascertain the truth

[drm604]

2. VERY important issue.

Possibly THE most important. We could be prevented from even discussing other issues.