It’s Happening Again
The largest telecommunications companies in the United States are lobbying Congress to eliminate the concept of “Network Neutrality,” sometimes known as the First Amendment of the Internet.
Network Neutrality is what makes access to the smallest vanity web site from your Uncle Tony as easy to access as the biggest corporate site. It means that no one site has a bigger “voice” than any other.
Network Neutrality is one of the defining features of the Internets existence and its success as a democratizing force for creativity and innovation. If we lose this, we lose the freedom and ease of access that allows the internet to bring people, nations, and ideas together in a smaller, less divisive world.
Who benefits? AT&T, Time Warner, Verizon, Comcast… the big cable and telecom companies who would love to have a say over what you can access when you log on.
There’s more information here, including a simple way you can contact your representative to oppose this action. Please don’t delay to make your voice heard… or your online voice might just lose some of its volume forever.
