FW: Save the Internet

From: DuBose, Terry (DuboseTerryJ@uams.edu)
Mon May 8 10:47:39 2006


Perhaps we should pay attention to this. Terry

Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM

Associate Professor & Director Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP 4301 West Markham St. Mail Slot #563 Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205 USA 501-686-6510 DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu http://www.uams.edu/chrp/sonography/ http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm http://www.io.com/~dubose/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.savetheinternet.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Congress shaping telecom law in private <http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/> Well here's a shocker, frm Marilyn Geewax at the San Antonio Statesman. Lobbyists are writing the bill in secret, in conference committee. Megolomaniac...

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Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. Your local library shouldn't have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to have its Web site open quickly on your computer.

Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. If the public doesn't speak up now, Congress will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign by telephone and cable companies that want to decide what you do, where you go, and what you watch online.

This isn't just speculation -- we've already seen what happens elsewhere when the Internet's gatekeepers get too much control. Last year, Telus -- Canada's version of AT&T -- blocked their Internet customers <http://www.twu-canada.ca/cgi-bin/news/fullnews.cgi?newsid1122447600,451 6,> from visiting a Web site sympathetic to workers with whom the company was having a labor dispute. And Madison River, a North Carolina ISP, blocked its customers <http://www.freepress.net/news/13604> from using any competing Internet phone service.

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