[FairfieldLife] Re: Congress is selling out the internet
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google, Amazon, MoveOn. All these entities are fighting back as Congress tries to pass a law giving a few corporations the power to end the free and open Internet as we know it. You can do your part today. Tell Congress to preserve the free and open Internet. Click Here Dear MoveOn member, Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities, plus MoveOn's online organizing ability, will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law If Moveon.org is protesting a Congressional bill and they are referring to it as ...if Congress passes a radical law... and not something like ...if Republicans in Congress have their way..., why do I suspect that it is DEMOCRATS that are behind the proposed law? I could be wrong -- and I haven't checked it out who it behind the law -- but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case! that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet. Internet providers like ATT and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents ATT from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays ATT more. Amazon doesn't have to outbid Barnes Noble for the right to open more properly on your computer. If Net Neutrality is gutted, MoveOn either pays protection money to dominant Internet providers or risks that online activism tools don't work for members. Amazon and Google either pay protection money or risk that their websites process slowly on your computer. That why these high-tech pioneers are joining the fight to protect Network Neutrality1and you can do your part today. The free and open Internet is under seigecan 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/?id=7361-3763225- ogJOyxD2Kx4pxbxGYxzhWwt=4 To save the Internet, there needs to be a public groundswellso please forward this to 3 friends. Let them know protecting the free and open Internet is fundamentalit affects everything. When you sign this petition, you'll be kept informed of the next steps we can take to keep the heat on Congress. Votes begin in a House committee next week. MoveOn has already seen what happens when the Internet's gatekeepers get too much control. Just last week, AOL blockedany email mentioning a coalition that MoveOn is a part of, which opposes AOL's proposed email tax.2 And last year, Canada's version of ATTTelus blocked their Internet customers from visiting a website sympathetic to workers with whom Telus was negotiating.3 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 ATT's CEO, who openly says, The internet can't be free.4 We need to let Congress know we are paying attention. Together, we must make sure they listen to our voices and the voices of people like Vint Cerf, a father of the Internet and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, who recently wrote this to Congress in support of preserving Network Neutrality: My fear is that, as written, this bill would do great damage to the Internet as we know it. Enshrining a rule that broadly permits network operators to discriminate in favor of certain kinds of services and to potentially interfere with others would place broadband operators in control of online activity...Telephone companies cannot tell consumers who they can call; network operators should not dictate what people can do online.4 The essence of the Internet is at riskcan 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/?id=7361-3763225- ogJOyxD2Kx4pxbxGYxzhWwt=5 Please forward to 3 others who care about this issue. Thanks for all you do. Eli Pariser, Adam Green, Noah T. Winer, and the MoveOn.org Civic Action team Friday, April 21st, 2006 P.S. MoveOn is part of a broad SaveTheInternet.com coalition check it out! P.P.S. If Congress abandons Network Neutrality, who will be affected? Advocacy groups like MoveOnPolitical organizing could be slowed by a handful of dominant Internet providers who ask advocacy groups to pay protection money for their websites and online features to work correctly. NonprofitsA charity's website could open at snail-speed, and online contributions could grind to a halt, if nonprofits can't pay dominant Internet providers for access to the fast lane of Internet service. Google usersAnother search engine could pay dominant Internet providers like ATT to guarantee the competing search engine opens
[FairfieldLife] Re: Congress is selling out the internet
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Google, Amazon, MoveOn. All these entities are fighting back as Congress tries to pass a law giving a few corporations the power to end the free and open Internet as we know it. You can do your part today. Tell Congress to preserve the free and open Internet. Click Here Dear MoveOn member, Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities, plus MoveOn's online organizing ability, will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law If Moveon.org is protesting a Congressional bill and they are referring to it as ...if Congress passes a radical law... and not something like ...if Republicans in Congress have their way..., why do I suspect that it is DEMOCRATS that are behind the proposed law? I could be wrong You're wrong, of course. -- and I haven't checked it out who it behind the law -- but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case! Actually, it would be *astounding* if the Democrats were the ones behind it. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Congress is selling out the internet
In a message dated 4/21/06 2:27:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If Moveon.org is protesting a Congressional bill and they are referring to it as "...if Congress passes a radical law..." and not something like "...if Republicans in Congress have their way...", why do I suspect that it is DEMOCRATS that are behind the proposed law?I could be wrong -- and I haven't checked it out who it behind the law -- but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case! But then maybe Moveon.org needs to expand a mailing list they sell others. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Congress is selling out the internet
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Google, Amazon, MoveOn. All these entities are fighting back as Congress tries to pass a law giving a few corporations the power to end the free and open Internet as we know it. You can do your part today. Tell Congress to preserve the free and open Internet. Click Here Dear MoveOn member, Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities, plus MoveOn's online organizing ability, will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law If Moveon.org is protesting a Congressional bill and they are referring to it as ...if Congress passes a radical law... and not something like ...if Republicans in Congress have their way..., why do I suspect that it is DEMOCRATS that are behind the proposed law? I could be wrong -- and I haven't checked it out who it behind the law -- but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case! Well, given that the repulicans control both Houses of Congress AND the White House, the Democrats would have a hard time putting one over on the Republicans without their consent... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Congress is selling out the internet
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Google, Amazon, MoveOn. All these entities are fighting back as Congress tries to pass a law giving a few corporations the power to end the free and open Internet as we know it. You can do your part today. Tell Congress to preserve the free and open Internet. Click Here Dear MoveOn member, Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities, plus MoveOn's online organizing ability, will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law If Moveon.org is protesting a Congressional bill and they are referring to it as ...if Congress passes a radical law... and not something like ...if Republicans in Congress have their way..., why do I suspect that it is DEMOCRATS that are behind the proposed law? I could be wrong You're wrong, of course. -- and I haven't checked it out who it behind the law -- but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case! Actually, it would be *astounding* if the Democrats were the ones behind it. For no other reason than they have no control, so how CAN they be behind a major initiative without Republican cooperation? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
