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SpiritDancerOne -> Congress is selling out the Internet (4/16/2007 12:50:02 PM)
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Hi,
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%7C8050848- FhWjpU
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%7C8050848- FhWjpU
Thanks.
The final step:
Donate: Can you make a financial contribution to support this campaign?
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