Save the Internet!
Don’t Let The Big 4 Take Over

If it was up to a few members of Congress, this lowly blog and millions of others like it could end up costing you money… or waiting for hours.

A diverse coalition of groups from MoveOn and Common Cause to the Gun Owners of America and Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit have banded together to fight a law before Congress that would abandon network neutrality, the First Amendment of the Internet.

Under the proposed legislation, the country’s biggest telephone and cable companies – AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner – would become gatekeepers of the Internet, “deciding which Websites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all.” That way, they could discriminate in favor of their own search engines and Internet services. In addition, they want content providers to be taxed to guarantee speedy delivery of their info.

Check out SavetheInternet.com’s list of Congressmen who are against network neutrality. New York’s Edolphus Towns and Vito Fossella, you’ve been warned!

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