Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the concept that prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily based on which site pays AT&T more.
By allowing AT&T, Verizon and other Internet carriers to filter and/or manipulate Internet data flow, we open the door for government and/or companies to one day control ALL news and information. (For the global ramifications of total media control, read Orwell's "1984.") As Amazon.com VP Paul Misener told the E-Commerce Times:
A carrier could block access to a labor union site during a dispute. It could block access to a Web site after a special interest group makes a lot of noise about it. It could even block a political site to curry favor with the current administration. All that sounds far fetched, but the whole point is that there is nothing in place to stop carriers from doing it.
The free and open Internet is under seige—so tell Congress that you support preserving Network Neutrality. No politico cares what Californians have to say about it, so it's FAR more important for YOU smart folks in other states to bug your representatives. After all, you elected them to represent the People, not the bottom lines of Telcoms.
Join the over 650,000 people who have already signed the Save The Internet petition.
Politicians don't think we are paying attention...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.
To see how manipulative these bastards TRULY are, check out the Telcom disinformation website designed to look like a grassroots, pro-internet website, which is actually set up by the self-serving Telcos themselves.
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