Please Support Net Neutrality
Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:43AM I support Net Neutrality and you should too.
Net neutrality is about digital equality. It’s not about free access to the Internet just fair and balanced access to the Internet with no exclusive tiers and no restricted access.
The Internet has changed a lot in the last 40 years and especially the way that we use the Internet. Voice, data, video and text travel across our internet on a daily basis. We have improved our infrastructure to the point where most large cities have broadband access to the Internet. An Internet that was built to connect computers together and our use has move way beyond that to connecting people together. The Telecommunications companies and network providers helped to expand the Internet and they have become very profitable and powerful along the way.
As the Internet has changed so has the business model for the Telecommunications companies. The Telecommunication companies grew fat on a business model that included a Land Line in every home and higher fees for long distance calls. Just think about their monopoly, $30.00 to $100.00 a month from every household in America and it is going away. This was their cash cow so what are they going to do now? Many folks are doing away with their land lines or going for the Triple Play from their cable provider which uses VOIP over the Internet to establish phone calls. And what are the Telecommunication companies doing? They are looking for their next cash cow on the Internet by controlling access to our data on the Internet.
With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data -- not to choose which data to privilege with higher quality service. Do you really want the Network and Telecommunication companies to be the gatekeepers of the Internet? I for one do not, however that is what they want and that is why they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to put a stop to Net Neutrality.
How can you help? You can urge Congress and the FCC to support Net Neutrality. There is an easy form on the Save the Internet website that allows you to put your contact information in and it will send a note about your support of Net Neutrality to your member of Congress. Here is the link called “Two Million Strong for Net Neutrality” and I urge you to follow it and send a note to your Member of Congress.
Please do not let the Telco’s and Network Providers win. If you do not send a note to Congress you can still help by showing your support for Net Neutrality and joining the savetheinternet.com coalition and letting others know that you support Net Neutrality.
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