Christian Coalition Announces Support for 'Net Neutrality'

WASHINGTON, May 17 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Today, Christian Coalition of America announced its support for the effort to amend pending telecom legislation in Congress in order to prevent the large phone and cable companies from discriminating against web sites.

Roberta Combs, the President of Christian Coalition of America said, "Christian Coalition is joining a broad array of organizations, representing consumers, businesses, and all ends of the political spectrum. The Coalition is committed to working on behalf of our supporters to ensure that the Internet remains the free marketplace of ideas, products and services that it is today."

Major telecom companies are laying plans to create tiered access to the Internet – and to charge extra fees to consumers and content providers in order to offer select web sites for "fast access" by consumers. Without "Net Neutrality", American consumers who want to pay for fast broadband access to the Internet will find out they don't actually have what they thought they were paying for. They won't have high-speed broadband access to the entire Internet; just the part that the phone and cable companies allow them to see.

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Mrs. Combs said, "Under the new rules, there is nothing to stop the cable and phone companies from not allowing consumers to have access to speech that they don't support. What if a cable company with a pro-choice Board of Directors decides that it doesn't like a pro-life organization using its high-speed network to encourage pro-life activities? Under the new rules, they could slow down the pro-life web site, harming their ability to communicate with other pro-lifers - and it would be legal. We urge Congress to move aggressively to save the Internet -- and allow ideas rather than money to control what Americans can access on the World Wide Web. We urge all Americans to contact their Congressmen and Senators and tell them to save the Internet and to support 'Net Neutrality'."

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cc0517.htm

Does that make me a bad person? I feel like I need to wash my brain out with soap.

I just happy the holy roller keyboard brigade is going to be working for something worthwhile for once.

Agreeing with a fundy or rethug can happen. It isn't all bad especially if it helps mankind. Like this issue.

..."Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

by our old sayings makes me wonder why we never learn from our mistakes.

We're on the same side as the Christian Coalition AND the banks?

Strange bedfellows indeed.

So it's none too surprising that they'd be worried.

I guess that if we do lose eventually this one, crappy access to their sites would be a silver lining. They're about as popular on the web as they are all over TV. Which, incidently- is why they opposed the proposal to change the cable "packaging" system.

Make a great big stink, fundies. Tell your chimp he'd better not give the "Internets" away.

Major reason that we were not to have a Church state as some one set up their own as the ONE. You have to give every one freedom to be able to keep your own.

Workers rise up!

Actually, this sounds like the NRA's arguement against further broadcaster consolidation. I think that Clear Channel was stopped at 40% of the radio market, not 43%

Did Hell freeze over???