Al Franken: Republicans vote to eliminate net neutrality

Email from Al Franken


Dear xxx,

By now you may have heard the news: Republicans in the House of Representatives voted last week to block the FCC from enforcing its new net neutrality regulations.
As I’ve said before, these regulations weren’t nearly good enough to ensure that the Internet remains free and open. But they were a step in the right direction. And by voting to eliminate them, House Republicans declared their willingness to let big corporations control the Internet.
We know what this could mean for American consumers -- less diversity of viewpoints, less access to independent content through services like Netflix, and higher prices for Internet service.
The good news is that the Senate still has a chance to stop this special interest power play. I’m working as hard as I can to build support for net neutrality in the Senate -- but I’m not the only one talking to my colleagues. These corporations have lobbyists of their own, lots of them, and they’re descending upon Capitol Hill en masse.
The only way we're going to save net neutrality is if ordinary Americans make their voices heard. I'll update you soon -- but for now, please forward this email to your friends and ask them to join our campaign by linking up with me on Twitter or Facebook.
Thanks -- and stay tuned.

Al

against unions as to why they do it. They do it because they know this a major source of Democratic Power, the same holds true for the Internet, the Republicans know freedom of speech ultimately benefits Democrats.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x556580

No technological achievement has ever magnified not only the American People's First Amendment rights but that of the world so much as the Internet.

This is one reason as to why the corporate media are so eager to focus on the tree instead of the forest proclaiming a very narrow sliver of the Internet as sparking democratic upheaval in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

The other night, Nightline said it was all about Facebook when covering Tunisia, they never mentioned the word Internet and Jay Leno tried the same thing talking to Maddow last night, though she was savvy enough to acknowledge the reality of the broader scope of the impact to include the entire Internet.

This is also the primary reason that Republicans want to neutralize the people's rising influence; via the Internet, because it threatens corporatist/Republican monopolies on information power.

They will attack the Internet anyway they can on behalf of the status quo, mega wealthy, corporate supremacist powers that be; which are the primary sources of Republican Power and Net Neutrality is one critical battlefront.

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.

The corporatists won't rest until "free" is eliminated ... and everything has a price. After all, "one dollar one vote" is the New World Order.