Thursday, June 22, 2006

Net Neutrality Is Imperative

Do you want your website to get prioritized? Do you want to pay your ISP to ensure hits? Yeah, I thought not. But internet access and freedom are being challenged unmercifully.
If you're unsure about how the Net Neutrality goes, here's the down & dirty talking point. The big Telcos (AT&T, Bell South, Verizon, etc.) claim that unless they can run the internet their way, innovation is dead, and the internet will suck forever. The big Telcos are calling Net Neutrality "regulating the internet".

What a crock of shit. What the big Telcos want to do is create a monopoly for themselves, rake in money on services that are currently free (by setting up "toll booths" for those services - such as blogging, video streaming, etc.) and potentially determine which content will be provided to users. In order to argue this, McCurry and the Telcos have resorted to outright lies, claiming that Net Neutrality is an issue advocated by the far left and that if the Net Neutrality amendment passes, traffic on the internet will bog down in an increasingly overwhelmed network.

Contact your Congress critter now. They'll vote on Friday. Check the right sidebar of this site under "USEFUL LINKS" to contact your Congress critter. All contact info is linked except for the "omnibus" phone number.

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