Please help to save the internet!

[cteddiesgirl]

Taking a cue from Mal, I am starting a thread to discuss the problems that we may be facing soon about access to the internet and web sites.


Quoting from savetheinternet.com,
"Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn't speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign."

Quoted from It's our Net:
"The giant phone and cable companies are trying to take control of the Internet away from the public and convert it into their own private, corporate network They're boasting that they'll create premium lanes on the Internet so that people who can pay get seen and those who can't don't. Tell Congress to keep the Internet open and free and to protect the rights of users to see what you want to see and go anywhere you want to go on the Internet – just as you can today.
Consumers
If you are a consumer – a Mom looking for healthcare information to protect your family; a home-school parent using the Internet as part of your education plan; an email user staying in touch with your family and friends – you will have a degraded slower Internet experience with certain Web sites. Some Web sites will even be unavailable unless additional fees are paid.

Small Business
If you are a small business, you may not be able to survive online. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, you may be impeded from providing the “next big thing” on the Internet.

Schools & Churches
If you are a small non-profit organization, like a church or a school, you may not be able to get your messages out to congregants or student families without paying more."


Please check out these links and discuss and decide whether to take your own actions or not. Also, please pass the information to all your family and friends.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/index.html

http://www.savetheinternet.com

http://www.itsournet.org


There are also more links on the pbs site to check out.

 

[Maleficent2]

Giving this a bump because I think this is something everyone needs to get invloved with.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

No one wants to discuss this?

Oh well.

Bumping up for the info anyways.

 

[Dragonlord11_7]

I think that's unbelievable what kinda crap they wanna do to the internet... I mean charging extra for the speed we get today? That's so unfair, plus with inflation... You can probably expect them to charge $120+ for the speed we have have today.

 

[jasonpwns]

Omg It's out internet we pay for it so they should have no rights if this keeps up im going to get my dad to move us to canada bc I am so tired of the government and there little games

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Omg It's out internet we pay for it so they should have no rights if this keeps up im going to get my dad to move us to canada bc I am so tired of the government and there little games

Please make sure to show this to your parents. They need to know what's going on too.

 

[Blumonkeyboy]

the government has well with all respect NO RIGHT TO CONTROL THE NET well in my oppinion anyway. because i can tell you this some sites are belive it or not made outside of the US. ( .uk .cu ) so freedome!

 

[sassymom]

I had no idea, thank you for posting this. I will be reading all of this information from the links provided. I cannot beleive something like this would even be possible, but apparently so. Things like this make me wonder what's in store for us in the years to come. Will we be told how to dress, what to eat, what morals we can teach our children? America is about choices, and it seems slowly our choices are dwindling. I am not some sort of conspiracy theorist, and maybe things like this have always happened and I am just now noticing because I am an adult and more so a parent. I pay more attention now than I did before and back to topic I have the internet. We have answers to any question we could think of at the click of a mouse, and I for one am not ready to give that up. Thank you for the heads up, I plan to do whatever I can to make sure this will not happen.

 

[sassymom]

Just wanted to bump this back to the top!

 

[Shaymojack]

Bump to the top...

 

[disvaclub92]

Why do they choose not to focus on important stuff like National Healthcare? I am so sick of them trying to get their hands in everything else but what will benefit the public. <off my soapbox>

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Why do they choose not to focus on important stuff like National Healthcare? I am so sick of them trying to get their hands in everything else but what will benefit the public. <off my soapbox>

Yep.
But the problem is they government is getting "gifts" from the lobbyists from these major companies wanting this and getting "gifts" from insurance companies and health care companies to not do anything about that.