Free internet no more??

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

Tell me this is not going to happen

Dear Friends,


Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities and more will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn’t have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

If Net Neutrality is gutted, advocacy and non-profit groups either pay protection money to dominant Internet providers or risk that online activism tools don’t work for their members. Commercial entities like Amazon and Google will either pay protection money or risk that their websites process slowly on your computer. That’s why these high-tech pioneers are joining the fight to protect Network Neutrality 1-and you can do your part today.

The free and open Internet is under seige-can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here:

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/

and:

This is not an abstract threat. It is real, and it is today. AOL has already begin censoring political speech online:

MoveOn has already seen what happens when the Internet’s gatekeepers get too much control. Just last week, AOL blocked any email mentioning a coalition that MoveOn is a part of, which opposes AOL’s proposed “email tax.â€

[Ace Pace]

Yes, it's trying to get passed, however theres some serious pressure against it and at this rate, I doubt it will pass.