Monday, May 01, 2006
Telecom Giants move to Control how you surf the Web.
Last Thursday afternoon, a House committee caved to the narrow interests of companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast and voted to strip Net Neutrality from a bill moving through Congress.
The bill will allow them to restrict or slow down your access to certain websites. Last year, Canada’s Telus blocked their customers from visiting a web site sympathetic to workers who they were negotiating with.
The bill would mean these companies could control how well or poorly specific websites worked. Pay and you get good service, don’t pay, well good luck to you.
So big corporations will do just fine while small businesses and nonprofits will just have to hope that people don’t mind waiting for their web sites to load!
We can stop it from going further. At the moment, the internet is a level playing field, and it’s Net Neutrality that keeps it that way.
Contact your WA State Congress people to stop this from happening. Sen. Patty Murray: (202) 224-2621 Sen. Maria Cantwell: (202) 224-3441 Rep. Adam Smith: (202) 225-8901. Check out: www.savetheinternet.com for more help.
The bill will allow them to restrict or slow down your access to certain websites. Last year, Canada’s Telus blocked their customers from visiting a web site sympathetic to workers who they were negotiating with.
The bill would mean these companies could control how well or poorly specific websites worked. Pay and you get good service, don’t pay, well good luck to you.
So big corporations will do just fine while small businesses and nonprofits will just have to hope that people don’t mind waiting for their web sites to load!
We can stop it from going further. At the moment, the internet is a level playing field, and it’s Net Neutrality that keeps it that way.
Contact your WA State Congress people to stop this from happening. Sen. Patty Murray: (202) 224-2621 Sen. Maria Cantwell: (202) 224-3441 Rep. Adam Smith: (202) 225-8901. Check out: www.savetheinternet.com for more help.
# posted by Florence Vincent @ 4:19 PM 
