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tiny_rabid_birds
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net neutrality
#8018281 - 02/13/08 04:06 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i e-signed a petition sometime last year in favor of net neutrality. today i was sent an email regarding a new bit of legislation trying to be passed to prevent the comm giants from controlling info on the net. here's the email
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Last night, a bill was introduced in the U.S. House that would stop Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from controlling the free flow on information on the Internet.
The only way we can stop these gatekeepers is if we all take action to support this crucial legislation:
Tell Rep. David Price to Support Internet Freedom
In 2006, your voice helped stop mighty phone an
In 2006, your voice helped stop mighty phone and cable companies from gutting Net Neutrality. In 2007, you pried open their cell phone networks and gave users a choice.
This year, we're going to stop Internet blocking and censorship once and for all.
Why This is Important: Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) introduced the "Internet Freedom Preservation Act" (HR 5353) to stop relentless corporate attempts to set up roadblocks on the information superhighway.
It guarantees Net Neutrality by restoring it in the foundation of communications law. This bold move promises that the public -- not phone and cable companies -- will control the fate of the Internet.
The legislation also calls for a nationwide series of public hearings before anyone in Washington hands these gatekeepers and their lobbyists more power. (Read more about the bill here)
Take Action Now: Save the Internet
How Far We've Come: In 2006, more than 1.5 million Americans called on Congress to keep gatekeepers off our Internet. Last year, more than a quarter-million people sent comments to the FCC and opened up cell-phone networks to user choice and innovation.
This new bill was made possible by our amazing grassroots movement. SavetheInternet.com has brought together Democrats and Republicans, consumer groups and small businesses, bloggers and video gamers, in a new bottom-up majority that's shaking up the status quo.
What You Can Do: For too long, communications policymaking has been rigged against us. But by taking action to support this bill, you're telling Congress that high-priced lobbyists will no longer set the agenda.
Tell Rep. David Price : 'Support the Internet Freedom Preservation Act'
The purpose of the Internet is to give power over information to everyone. The role of our elected leaders is to protect our basic right to communicate from those who want to take it away from us.
We've started a new chapter in the fight for an open Internet. We realize that it takes more than one piece of legislation to reverse decades of corrosive telecom policies.
But with this bill -- and your help -- we are on our way.
Thank you,
Timothy Karr Campaign Director SavetheInternet.com
P.S. Bloggers, activists and Internet experts are logging on to the Free Press Action Network to discuss Net Neutrality, an open Internet and people-powered broadband policy. Join the discussion at http://www.freepress.net/action/
figured i'd let you kids take a look for yourself. give you a chance to support it if it's a cause you feel you can get behind (which i figure most of you will, given the nature of the website and the ideal of free exchange of information upon which it heavily relies)
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vampirism
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Registered: 03/14/04
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so let me get this straight..
you want me to sign a petition to bind broadband providers in a particular business model, forever? Not only this, but through US law- meaning that it would be illegal for them to try any other way?
I used to be pro net neutrality, until I realized how evil it is.
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: net neutrality [Re: vampirism]
#8037291 - 02/18/08 10:19 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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if by binding broadband providers in a particular business model forever you mean refusing them the ability to monopolize the purchase and regulation of the internet as we know it, then yes.
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Boom
just a tester

Registered: 06/16/04
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Loc: Cypress Creek
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Don't they own the pipes that this information is travelling on? I'd make sure my content got priority if I owned a segment of the network
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