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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-26-06 06:49 PM
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Have you seen this? Will Internet Neutralitysoon be a thing of the past?
Edited on Wed Apr-26-06 06:51 PM by YellowRubberDuckie
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn't have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the verge of selling out to people like AT&T's CEO, who openly says, "The internet can't be free."

The free and open Internet is under seige — can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here: http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is located on the bottom of this link: http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/neutrality.asp

Link to the petition from Move On...
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet



I am just.....speechless.
:wtf:
Oh and please sign the petition if you haven't already!!
Duckie
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Lady Effingbroke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-26-06 07:00 PM
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1. Signed.
Yet another battle in the endless war of corporate dominion.

Greedy fucks!
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-26-06 07:02 PM
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2. I couldn't agree more!
Thanks, Lady!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-26-06 07:07 PM
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3. Done!
Thanks for the heads-up! :yourock:
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