Re: Congress threatens the internet...again - sign petition
- From: Masculist <MASCULIST@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 20 Apr 2007 13:45:52 -0700
On Apr 20, 1:36 pm, Viking <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Once again, congress sells out to the highest bidder.
From moveon.org:
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod?
Everything we do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law
next week that gives giant corporations more control over what we do
and see on the Internet.
Internet providers like AT&T are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network
Neutrality--the Internet's First Amendment and the key to Internet
freedom. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites
open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more.
BarnesandNoble.com doesn't have to outbid Amazon for the right to work
properly on your computer.
If Net Neutrality is gutted, many sites--including Google, eBay, and
iTunes--must either pay protection money to companies like AT&T or
risk having their websites process slowly. That why these high-tech
pioneers, plus diverse groups ranging from MoveOn to Gun Owners of
America, are opposing Congress' effort to gut Internet freedom.
You can do your part today--can you sign this petition telling your
member of Congress to preserve Internet freedom? Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C501...
I signed this petition, along with 250,000 others so far. This petiton
will be delivered to Congress before the House of Representatives
votes next week. When you sign, you'll be kept informed of the next
steps we can take to keep the heat on Congress.
Snopes.com, which monitors various causes that circulate on the
Internet, explained:
"Simply put, network neutrality means that no web site's traffic has
precedence over any other's...Whether a user searches for recipes
using Google, reads an article on snopes.com, or looks at a friend's
MySpace profile, all of that data is treated equally and delivered
from the originating web site to the user's web browser with the same
priority. In recent months, however, some of the telephone and cable
companies that control the telecommunications networks over which
Internet data flows have floated the idea of creating the electronic
equivalent of a paid carpool lane."
If companies like AT&T have their way, Web sites ranging from Google
to eBay to iTunes either pay protection money to get into the "fast
lane" or risk opening slowly on your computer. We can't let the
Internet--this incredible medium which has been such a revolutionary
force for democratic participation, economic innovation, and free
speech--become captive to large corporations.
Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue.
Together, we do care about preserving the free and open Internet.
Please sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you
support preserving Internet freedom. Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C501...
When's liberal "Move On" going to chamion free speech (Imus) instead
of expanding feminist censorship using the new catch phrase of all
feminists, Left and Right, of "civility"?
This net neutrality thing is not a slam dunk BTW in terms of how much
it will effect things according to the leading tech guys for an open
net (Leo Laporte et al). Might this be an advocacy for fem i-fascist
Move On to appear liberal? Same old same old.
Tom
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