Help Save The Internets

Yesterday, the US House passed the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (COPE) without meaningful network neutrality provisions promoted by the diverse, right-left www.savetheinternet.com coalition of public interest and business groups.

The 152 to 269 vote coincides with a massive lobbying effort by telephone companies to enter the national television market and prevent preservation of network neutrality requirements.

"Special interest advocates from telephone and cable companies have flooded the Congress with misinformation delivered by an army of lobbyists to undermine decades-long federal practice of prohibiting network owners from discriminating against competitors to shut out competition. Unless the Senate steps in, today's vote marks the beginning of the end of the Internet as an engine of new competition, entrepreneurship and innovation." said Consumers Union Senior Policy Analyst, Jeannine Kenney.

Contact your Senator now! Contact info is on the right.

Bloggers will be particularly affected. We can't afford to pay for priority access. That means our blog sites will load sooooooooo sloooooooowly people won't bother with us.

Can you imagine the chances eBay could survive if their pages loaded slower than they already do? This would be the equivalent of giving extortion rights to AT&T, Viacom and the other ISPs.

Tell your Senator he/she has no chance in hell of getting your vote if they don't do everything they can to kill this legislation.

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