Save The Internet!
This is some bullshit right here and we all need to take action immediately! Thanks to Andy for starting this blog post, please repost it everywhere and send messages!
How would you like Verizon to decide what what websites you can visit? Or AT&T to determine if the Republican Party website will load faster or slower than the Democratic Party Website? Want Comcast determining what search engines you can use?
It's important to realize that in the course of the next few weeks we could lose the democratic nature of the internet. How? In a word, congress. And as little as I like Republicans, Democrats are equally to blame for this one. Both parties are on their knees to offer full service to the major telcom companies.
Here's the deal:
Last fall, however, the Federal Communications Commission, backed by the U.S. Supreme Court, decided that the high-speed Internet services offered by the cable and telephone companies didn’t fall under that law, the Communications Act. Out the window went the law that treated everyone equally. Now, with broadband, we are in a new game without rules.
Telephone and cable companies own 98% of the high-speed broadband networks the public uses to go online for reading news, shopping, listening to music, posting videos or any of the thousands of other uses developed for the Internet. But that isn’t enough. They want to control what you read, see or hear online. The companies say that they will create premium lanes on the Internet for higher fees, and give preferential access to their own services and those who can afford extra charges. The rest of us will be left to use an inferior version of the Internet.
Here is a brief video that breaks down net neutrality in simple terms.
You can go here to take action against this.
What else can you do to keep this from happening?
# Blog about it.
# Write a letter to the editor! You can contact many media outlets here.
# Most important: contact your Representatives and Senators to tell them to support net neutrality!
How would you like Verizon to decide what what websites you can visit? Or AT&T to determine if the Republican Party website will load faster or slower than the Democratic Party Website? Want Comcast determining what search engines you can use?
It's important to realize that in the course of the next few weeks we could lose the democratic nature of the internet. How? In a word, congress. And as little as I like Republicans, Democrats are equally to blame for this one. Both parties are on their knees to offer full service to the major telcom companies.
Here's the deal:
Last fall, however, the Federal Communications Commission, backed by the U.S. Supreme Court, decided that the high-speed Internet services offered by the cable and telephone companies didn’t fall under that law, the Communications Act. Out the window went the law that treated everyone equally. Now, with broadband, we are in a new game without rules.
Telephone and cable companies own 98% of the high-speed broadband networks the public uses to go online for reading news, shopping, listening to music, posting videos or any of the thousands of other uses developed for the Internet. But that isn’t enough. They want to control what you read, see or hear online. The companies say that they will create premium lanes on the Internet for higher fees, and give preferential access to their own services and those who can afford extra charges. The rest of us will be left to use an inferior version of the Internet.
Here is a brief video that breaks down net neutrality in simple terms.
You can go here to take action against this.
What else can you do to keep this from happening?
# Blog about it.
# Write a letter to the editor! You can contact many media outlets here.
# Most important: contact your Representatives and Senators to tell them to support net neutrality!
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