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manohartvs

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Subject: Congress is selling out the Internet

Hi,

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn't have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the verge of selling out to people like AT&T's CEO, who openly says, "The internet can't be free."

The free and open Internet is under seige--can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here:

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is located on the bottom of this link: http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html

Thanks!
 
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Accipiter22

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Feb 11, 2005
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LMAO.....


just as long as i can still order tin foil and get to the sites that tell me how to make the hat
 
pontifex

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
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Originally posted by: manohartvs
Subject: Congress is selling out the Internet

Hi,

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn't have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the verge of selling out to people like AT&T's CEO, who openly says, "The internet can't be free."

The free and open Internet is under seige--can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here:

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is located on the bottom of this link: http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html

Thanks!
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errr...what?
 
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TerryMathews

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: manohartvs
Subject: Congress is selling out the Internet

Hi,

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn't have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the verge of selling out to people like AT&T's CEO, who openly says, "The internet can't be free."

The free and open Internet is under seige--can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here:

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is located on the bottom of this link: http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html

Thanks!
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errr...what?
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AT&T is trying to charge certain companies more for providing them service. They want more than just the bandwidth charges, they want a 'cut of the action' too.

It's all part of the new AT&T. Ma Bell is back.
 
0roo0roo

0roo0roo

No Lifer
Sep 21, 2002
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yup, trying to nickle and dime us over bandwidth we are already paying for. they whine and whine while they give us pathetic slow broadband access while other countries like south korea are light years ahead of us in broadband. instead of upgrading their networks they just want to throttle us back. they just want to be the ne w media controllers and thats bs.
 
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0roo0roo

No Lifer
Sep 21, 2002
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Originally posted by: TerryMathews
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: manohartvs
Subject: Congress is selling out the Internet

Hi,

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn't have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the verge of selling out to people like AT&T's CEO, who openly says, "The internet can't be free."

The free and open Internet is under seige--can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here:

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is located on the bottom of this link: http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html

Thanks!
Click to expand...

errr...what?
Click to expand...

AT&T is trying to charge certain companies more for providing them service. They want more than just the bandwidth charges, they want a 'cut of the action' too.

It's all part of the new AT&T. Ma Bell is back.
Click to expand...


yup, thugs. they want to be like the mafia demanding "protection money". the congress better not be stupid enough to fall for this.
 
PingSpike

PingSpike

Lifer
Feb 25, 2004
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Imagine the only internet service provider that offers broadband service in your area has a government protected local monopoly. Now imagine them throttling the connection speed to websites that compete with their sister companies. They want to sell you a pipe to the internet without any local competition...and now they want to artificially control the bandwidth you receive, depending on whether its profitable or not for you to visit certain sites.

Thats what this is about.
 
mugs

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Interview in Wired with Bill Smith of BellSouth:

Every packet of data on the Internet - whether from a billion-dollar firm or a Buffy fan site - gets equal treatment. It's called network neutrality, and it may soon be history. Major telcos now want to make top sites pay for faster throughput (though a bill before Congress aims to prohibit tiered service). We asked BellSouth's Bill Smith why he's advocating a toll lane for Very Important Packets

Wired: Wouldn't tiered service limit end users' choices online?
Smith: We've never said we intend to decide where you can and can't go. Some applications require different treatment: some are sensitive to latency, others to packet loss. Tiered features can enable new apps - like health care.

Wired: But the main reason people pay $50 a month is for access to content. Why shouldn't google demand fees from you?
Smith: So I can get premium treatment from Google or Yahoo! by paying them, but the suggestion that they should have to pay for premium treatment - even to deliver rich media - is somehow a problem? To me, that's bizarre. We're the people who are deploying the capital.

Wired: If Google doesn't pay, Yahoo! has an edge. Isn't this a protection racket?
Smith: I don't think it is. I think it's how the free market works. If I look at Wired advertising, my guess is the inside front cover costs more than page 78. If google or Yahoo! or MSN start putting on full-length movies and striking deals with ABC and CBS, that's driving up cost.

Wired: Sounds like you're complaining about how tought he bandwidth biz is.
Smith: In any business, there's an opportunity to differentiate service. Most airlines have first class, coach and standby. Before we start legislating that no one's allowed to offer premium service, we need to think through the ramifications.
 
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