Yeah, yeah, this is a bit of a rerun post, but I think it’s important you consider acting out to protect Net Neutrality.
I woke up this morning and read a commentary from Al Franken at CNN: Net neutrality is foremost free speech issue of our time. Of course, this got me all bunged up and pissed off again, so I wrote another letter to my Congressman, Mike Capuano. Again.
John Richard Sheaves
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-1203
August 7, 2010To the Honorable Michael E. Capuano:
I am writing to voice my concerns over the fate of Net Neutrality and the conduct of the FCC.
I helped pay for the Internet and I rely on it every day. Net Neutrality is the bedrock of freedom of information, innovation, and equal opportunity online, and I request that its protections continue to be extended to all users of the Internet. I do not want mega-corporations with commercial incentive to limit or regulate freedom of information on the Web, to install virtual “fast lanes” or “toll booths” that enable monopolies and corporate profiteering, or to decide whether I will have a voice with which to speak and what my eyes will see online. Please work to ensure that companies like Verizon and Comcast do not obtain this power over me and the Internet. All Internet users should be provided equal opportunity to consume and produce information at identical service levels, whether that user is the guy next door writing a neighborhood news blog or a media mega-corporation promoting their next summer blockbuster.
At the time of this writing, more than 1.9 million Americans have expressed support for Net Neutrality at Congress and the FCC. They want control over the Internet to remain in the hands of the people who use it every day.
The FCC must regain its resolve to protect Net Neutrality on wired and wireless networks. Please work to reclassify broadband as a “telecommunications service” and keep the Internet open and free of corporate gatekeepers. You must stand with the public by protecting Net Neutrality once and for all.
Thanks, and be well.
Fore more information, I recommend you visit SaveTheInternet.com, and I urge you to act now. Cheers.
