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From: "Timothy Karr, Campaign Director" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 24, 2006 2:33:28 PM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now
Dear Dana Spiegel:
After destroying TV and radio, mega-media corporations are scheming
to control what content you can view and which services you can use
online.
Streaming video, Internet phones, podcasting and online games are
the future of the Internet. But companies like Verizon, AT&T and
Comcast want Congress to let them deliver only their own products
at super-high speeds ... while sticking the rest of us in the slow
lane.
This predatory scheme would be a dead end for independent voices
and Internet innovators: bloggers, producers, and any new channels
and services that might compete with the conglomerates.
The only way to stop them is to raise hell right now:
Tell Big Media and Congress: Hands Off Our Internet. Go to http://
www.freepress.net/action/neutrality
From its beginnings, the Internet was built on a cooperative,
democratic ideal. The infrastructure’s only job was to move data
between users — regardless of where it came from or what it contained.
This “network neutrality” fostered a medium that did not exclude
anyone, allowed for far-reaching innovations, and created the
Internet as we know it.
Past experience shows that when large media companies are left to
their own devices, the result is content and services that serve
nothing but their bank accounts. An open and independent Internet
is the antidote to these media gatekeepers.
If big media companies are allowed to limit the fastest services to
those who can pay their toll, upstart Web services, consumers,
bloggers and new media makers alike all would be cut off from the
digital revolution.
Tell Big Media and Congress: Hands Off Our Internet. Go to http://
www.freepress.net/action/neutrality
Free Press will deliver a letter to the CEO of your broadband
provider and send copies to your members of Congress, urging them
to write “network neutrality” into law.
Act now. We must defend our Net freedoms before we lose them
altogether.
Onward,
Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
www.freepress.net
P.S. Please forward this e-mail right now to everyone you know who
uses the Internet.
P.P.S Check out the new Free Press Web site — Dead End for the
Internet? — to learn more about net neutrality and how to ensure
that the Web remains an open road. Go to http://www.freepress.net/
deadend/
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