Thanks for helping to save the Internet

Hello,

My apologies for cross-posting.

-- Arjun Sabharwal
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Date:    Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:24:10 -0600 
From:    Christopher Schipper <schippercSANJUANCOLLEGE.EDU> 
Subject: FW: Thanks for  helping to save the Internet! 

Subject: Congress is selling out the Internet 

Hi, 

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod?

These 
activities 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. 

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." 

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 

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net 
Neutrality is 
located on the bottom of this link: 
h
ttp://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html 

Thanks!=20 
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Basically this is about all content being treated equally
and no 
preference given to one source over the other.  If they want
to speed up 
video, fine.  If they just want to speed up video from
Disney or the 
Home Shopping Network, then they've got another thing
coming.  In such a 
Brave New World of content discrimination, you can just
imagine how 
Libraries would fare.

On the House side the bill just got voted out of Committee
with the "Net 
Neutrality" Amendment being voted down unfortunately. 
The focus now is 
shifting to the floor of the House and the equivalent Bill
making its 
way through the Senate.

Some good sites on this are:

http://www.savetheint
ernet.com/
http://freepress.net/
http://www.publicknow
ledge.org/

LEO

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Leo Robert Klein
www.leoklein.com


Arjun Sabharwal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My apologies for cross-posting.
> 
> -- Arjun Sabharwal
>
********************************************************
> Date:    Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:24:10 -0600 
> From:    Christopher Schipper <schippercSANJUANCOLLEGE.EDU> 
> Subject: FW: Thanks for  helping to save the Internet! 
> 
> Subject: Congress is selling out the Internet 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an
Ipod? 
> These 
> activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical
law 
> that gives 
> giant corporations more control over the Internet. 
> 
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