[ZESTAlternative] The Internet is under threat!

Fri, 05 May 2006 21:51:34 -0700


As usual the US Congress is selling out. This time it's the Internet.


Hi Everyone,

Please take a min. and read this. We have to speak out now or start paying
for the internet in one form or another. We will not just be economically
affected, it will come down to freedom of speech. Internet Service Providers
could slow down sites that they don't politically agree with or those which
other people pay them to slow to a crawl for such reasons.

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we
do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week that gives
giant corporations more control over what we do and see on the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network
Neutrality--the Internet's First Amendment and the key to Internet freedom.
Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily
for you based on which site pays AT&T more. BarnesandNoble.com doesn't have
to outbid Amazon for the right to work properly on your computer.

If Net Neutrality is gutted, almost every popular site--from Google to eBay
to iTunes--must either pay protection money to Internet companies like AT&T
or risk having their websites process slowly. That why these high-tech
pioneers and others are opposing Congress' effort to gut Internet freedom.

You can do your part today--can you sign this petition telling your member
of Congress to preserve Internet freedom? Click here:

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C6977937-Pe
f7O6BZZsO29G1XTLIxrQ

I signed this petition, along with 250,000 others so far. This petiton will
be delivered to Congress before the House of Representatives votes next
week. When you sign, you'll be kept informed of the next steps we can take
to keep the heat on Congress.

Snopes.com, which monitors various causes that circulate on the Internet,
explained:

  Simply put, network neutrality means that no web site's traffic has
precedence over any other's...Whether a user searches for recipes using
Google, reads an article on snopes.com, or looks at a friend's MySpace
profile, all of that data is treated equally and delivered from the
originating web site to the user's web browser with the same priority. In
recent months, however, some of the telephone and cable companies that
control the telecommunications networks over which Internet data flows have
floated the idea of creating the electronic equivalent of a paid carpool
lane.

If companies like AT&T have their way, Web sites ranging from Google to eBay
to iTunes either pay protection money to get into the "fast lane" or risk
opening slowly on your computer. We can't let the Internet--this incredible
medium which has been such a revolutionary force for democratic
participation, economic innovation, and free speech--become captive to large
corporations.

Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Together, we
do care about preserving the free and open Internet.

Please sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support
preserving Internet freedom. Click here:

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C6977937-Pe
f7O6BZZsO29G1XTLIxrQ

Thanks,

Joey Schaaf
Webmaster
www.loudrockmusic.com
P.O. Box 1851
Hayes, VA 23072






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