Hi,
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we do
online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week that gives giant
corporations more control over what we do and see on the Internet.
Internet providers like AT&T are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network
Neutrality--the Internet's First Amendment and the key to Internet freedom. Net
Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which web sites open most easily for you
based on which site pays AT&T more. BarnesandNoble.com doesn't have to outbid
Amazon for the right to work properly on your computer.
If Net Neutrality is gutted, many sites--including Google, eBay, and
iTunes--must either pay protection money to companies like AT&T or risk having
their web sites process slowly. That why these high-tech pioneers, plus diverse
groups ranging from MoveOn to Gun Owners of America, are opposing Congress'
effort to gut Internet freedom.
You can do your part today--can you sign this petition telling your member of
Congress to preserve Internet freedom? Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C3932018-w7b_h4jcvufYIWna.7JSwA
I signed this petition, along with 250,000 others so far. This petition will be
delivered to Congress before the House of Representatives votes next week. When
you sign, you'll be kept informed of the next steps we can take to keep the heat
on Congress.
Snopes.com, which monitors various causes that circulate on the Internet,
explained:
Simply put, network neutrality means that no web site's traffic has precedence
over any other's...Whether a user searches for recipes using Google, reads an
article on snopes.com, or looks at a friend's MySpace profile, all of that data
is treated equally and delivered from the originating web site to the user's web
browser with the same priority. In recent months, however, some of the telephone
and cable companies that control the telecommunications networks over which
Internet data flows have floated the idea of creating the electronic equivalent
of a paid carpool lane.
If companies like AT&T have their way, Web sites ranging from Google to eBay to
iTunes either pay protection money to get into the "fast lane" or risk opening
slowly on your computer. We can't let the Internet--this incredible medium which
has been such a revolutionary force for democratic participation, economic
innovation, and free speech--become captive to large corporations.
Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Together, we do
care about preserving the free and open Internet.
Please sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support
preserving Internet freedom. Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C3932018-w7b_h4jcvufYIWna.7JSwA
Thanks,
Bob Hare Jr. aka 'Animated GIF Man'
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