House Ignores Public, Sells Out the Internet
Today the House Energy and Commerce Committee struck a blow to Internet freedom by voting down a proposal to protect Network Neutrality from attacks by companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast.
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The Markey Amendment supporting Net Neutrality was voted down by a vote of 34 to 22. The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act telecom law, or COPE Act, passed out of the committee without any meaningful protection for Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality means all online activity must be treated equally, and companies like AT&T must allow Internet users to view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site.
The Commerce Committee is headed in the opposite direction of where the American public wants to go, said Columbia Law Professor Timothy Wu, a pro-market advocate and one of the intellectual architects of the Net Neutrality principle.Most people favor an open and neutral Internet and dont want Internet gatekeepers taxing and tollboothing innovation.
Major telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get Congress to change the rules to let them discriminate on the Internet forcing Web sites to pay protection money to ensure their sites will work properly.
Go to SaveTheInternet.com to get active in preserving a level Internet playing field. Don't let the corporate beast swallow our most effective tool for grassroots participatory community organizing.
Source: Calling All Corporate Shills
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The Markey Amendment supporting Net Neutrality was voted down by a vote of 34 to 22. The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act telecom law, or COPE Act, passed out of the committee without any meaningful protection for Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality means all online activity must be treated equally, and companies like AT&T must allow Internet users to view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site.
The Commerce Committee is headed in the opposite direction of where the American public wants to go, said Columbia Law Professor Timothy Wu, a pro-market advocate and one of the intellectual architects of the Net Neutrality principle.Most people favor an open and neutral Internet and dont want Internet gatekeepers taxing and tollboothing innovation.
Major telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get Congress to change the rules to let them discriminate on the Internet forcing Web sites to pay protection money to ensure their sites will work properly.
Go to SaveTheInternet.com to get active in preserving a level Internet playing field. Don't let the corporate beast swallow our most effective tool for grassroots participatory community organizing.
Source: Calling All Corporate Shills
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