DICARLO PRODUCTIONS
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8/21/2006 9:17:13 AM
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STOP BIG CORPORATIONS FROM TAKING OVER THE INTERNET
STOP BIG CORPORATIONS FROM TAKING OVER THE INTERNET
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These
activities, plus MoveOn's online organizing ability, 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, MoveOn either pays protection money to
dominant Internet providers or risks that online activism tools don't work
for members. Amazon and Google either pay protection money or risk that
their websites process slowly on your computer. That 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://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C6084962-2qHy0ua9d220f6vgBiO
Then, please forward this to 3 friends. Protecting the free and open
Internet is fundamental--it affects everything. When you sign this
petition, you'll be kept informed of the next steps we can take to keep
the heat on Congress. Votes begin in a House committee next week.
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." [2] And last year, Canada's version of AT&T--Telus--blocked their
Internet customers from visiting a website sympathetic to workers with
whom Telus was negotiating [3].
Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. 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." [4]
Together, we can let Congress know we are paying attention. We can make
sure they listen to our voices and the voices of people like Vint Cerf, a
father of the Internet and Google's "Chief Internet Evangelist," who
recently wrote this to Congress in support of preserving Network
Neutrality:
My fear is that, as written, this bill would do great damage to the
Internet as we know it. Enshrining a rule that broadly permits network
operators to discriminate in favor of certain kinds of services and to
potentially interfere with others would place broadband operators in
control of online activity...Telephone companies cannot tell consumers
who they can call; network operators should not dictate what people
can do online [4].
The essence of the Internet is at risk--can you sign this petition letting
your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality?
Click here:
http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C6084962-2qHy0ua9d220f6vgBiO
Please forward to 3 others who care about this issue. Thanks for all you
do.
--Eli Pariser, Adam Green, Noah T. Winer, and the MoveOn.org Civic Action
team
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
P.S. If Congress abandons Network Neutrality, who will be affected?
* Advocacy groups like MoveOn--Political organizing could be slowed by a
handful of dominant Internet providers who ask advocacy groups to pay
"protection money" for their websites and online features to work
correctly.
* Nonprofits--A charity's website could open at snail-speed, and online
contributions could grind to a halt, if nonprofits can't pay dominant
Internet providers for access to "the fast lane" of Internet service.
* Google users--Another search engine could pay dominant Interne
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Maria Daines
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8/21/2006 9:31:47 PM
We need to keep this in the public eye and protest our right to freely share our work, for God's sake we're not even charging for it in most cases, sheesh!!!!!!
Glad you posted this Dicarlo and let's hope we can keep on rockin' in the so called 'free' world :)
All our best to you, M&P xx
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DICARLO PRODUCTIONS
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8/25/2006 8:46:30 AM
Hi Maria,
Thank you for responding.
I don´t think people are taking this thing seriously; but I hope this will change, before it´s too late.
Sometimes we have to fight for what we have, and this is one of those times.
I just hope people will wake up, before it´s too late.
Thanks again.
Hope all is going well.
Peace,
DICARLO
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