Will you allow Big Business to control the internet?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Net neutrality is one of the bedrock principles of the Internet. It means that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must treat all websites equally. They cannot make it easier load some websites, and more difficult to load others. It's what ensures your ISP can't privilege Fox News over Daily Kos.

But net neutrality is not the law of the land, so ISPs can abandon it at any time. In fact, Google and Verizon have proposed that net neutrality be abandoned for the mobile web. And they have proposed other violations of net neutrality which would end the Internet as we know it. We cannot allow this to happen.

Nothing good is likely to make its way through Congress anytime soon, so Daily Kos is joining with CREDO to urge Julius Genachowski, the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to take action.

Tell FCC Chairman Genachowski to act--don't let corporations write their own rules.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/netneutrality_dkos/index2.html

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Chairman Genachowski's first major speech as head of the FCC, in which he committed to protecting net neutrality. However, despite having the votes on the FCC to pass strong net neutrality rules, Genachowski has avoided taking the necessary action to do so. There's no good excuse for his dithering.

The regulatory vacuum his inaction has created set the stage for the Google and Verizon proposal, in which they are attempting to write the rules that would govern their behavior. To see what happens when large corporations write their own rules, we just need look at Wall Street, or the Gulf of Mexico. We can't let that to happen to the Internet, too. We must push Chairman Genachowski to act before it's too late.

Sign the petition--tell Chairman Genachowski to protect net neutrality.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/netneutrality_dkos/index2.html

The Daily Kos community is only possible because of net neutrality. It created the free and open Internet, which allowed netroots activism to flourish. Without net neutrality, it would be impossible for smaller websites, such as ours, to compete.

FCC chair Genachowski needs to step up. Join with thousands of others to remind Genachowski to fulfill his promise before it's too late.

Make the FCC stop dithering--sign the letter to protect net neutrality now!

Save the Intertubes,
Joan McCarter, Daily Kos

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. please help save the last holdout of free speech before DU becomes invisible

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. "'s no good excuse for his dithering."

Of course there is.
**Don't watch what they say, watch what they do**

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. thanks for the kick. this is very important for those of us that get our news from the internet

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I have not found any reliable news on tv anymore, so we quit the tube.

the internet is all we have left.
I agree it is crucial.

[howaboutme]

4. 74 Democrats signed letter to FCC advocating abandoning net neutrality

They want universal access in lieu of net neutrality. If these are your legislators, let them know how you feel. They claim that universal internet is more important than net neutrality. Why can't we have both?

http://www.savetheinternet.com/node/31255

http://www.policybytes.org/Blog/PolicyBytes.nsf/dx/TitleII_FCC_24May2010.pdf/$file/TitleII_FCC_24May2010.pdf

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. your second link is dead

[woo me with science]

5. K&R nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. thanks for the K&R...What's at stake if we lose Net Neutrality?

The consequences of a world without Net Neutrality would be devastating. Innovation would be stifled, competition limited, and access to information restricted. Consumer choice and the free market would be sacrificed to the interests of a few corporations.