Strange bedfellows: RightMarch & MoveOn ("internets" regulation)

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Oppose Government Regulation of the Internet

This CONSERVATIVE ALERT is a special message for jk from RightMarch.com:

ALERT: Over the last couple of months, RightMarch.com has found itself in a strange alliance... with MoveOn.org.

RightMarch and MoveOn were both charter members of a coalition of several hundred organizations, working to try and stop AOL and Yahoo! from adopting a program called CertifiedEmail. This program would amount to an "email tax" that could stop online grassroots organizations like ours from engaging in the mass activism that we do.

The coalition included groups from both the left and the right, because we had a goal: mobilize our grassroots to ask AOL and Yahoo! to put a halt to their plans. To us, that's the beauty of the free market: let the people make their voices heard, and keep the government OUT of it.

Well, now the folks on the far left, like MoveOn.org, are exposing their TRUE colors. They didn't want to stop at free-market grassroots activism; now they want to take things further, and get the federal government to step in and impose heavey regulations on the entire internet!

Believe it or not, we were also asked to join THAT coalition, called "Save The Internet". Of course, we declined; instead, we've joined a truly market-oriented group, called "Hand Off The Internet!" which has been organized to counter the left's misguided campaign to restrict internet freedom under the guise of "Net Neutrality" regulations.

As Jason Wright of the Institute for Liberty noted, "The leftist Moveon.org coalition claims that so-called 'Net Neutrality' rules are the 'First Amendment' for the internet. In fact, the exact opposite is true. The unprecedented regulation Moveon lobbies for limits innovation by restricting certain businesses from the option of seeking more reliable connections to support advanced services like VoIP or IPTV."

We need to STOP MoveOn.org and their liberal allies -- before they start a snowball effect of government regulations over the internet.

TAKE ACTION: So-called "net neutrality" is anything BUT neutral. There's nothing neutral about the government: dictating one, and ONLY one, way to design networks; creating an innovation double standard where innovation at the edge of the network is encouraged but discouraged inside the network; or rigging the game by picking winners before the game is played. And THAT is what MoveOn.org and their friends are pushing.

The fact is, "net neutrality" is the epitome of a solution in search of a problem. Click below NOW to send a free message to both your Senators AND your Congressman, telling them to keep the federal government AWAY from the world's freest, fairest market... the internet:

http://capwiz.com/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=8753641&type=CO

NOTE: There are a lot of potential unintended consequences from "net neutrality" legislation that the far left doesn't want you to know about: it could hinder public safety and homeland security; complicate protecting Americans privacy; erode the quality and responsiveness of the Internet; limit consumers' competitive choices; and discourage investment in broadband deployment to all Americans. Let's "nip this in the bud" NOW. For more info:

http://www.handsoff.org/
http://www.netcompetition.org/
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14435

Be sure to send this Alert to EVERYONE you know who wants to help expand consumer choices and opportunities on the internet, without worrying about more government regulation. Thank you!

Sincerely,


William Greene, President
RightMarch.com

[IndyOp]

1. Don't they feel dizzy all the time?

The spinning... It would make me :puke: