You Have 4 Days to Potentially Save the Internet
This post was published 2 years 4 months 12 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Sound’s like mission impossible, right? Well, there are 4 days left for you to submit public comment to the FCC on what your feelings are about net neutrality before they start considering their official position.
Although large providers play net neutrality down, it is essential to free speech, equal access and technological advances in the US. If large networks were not bound to equal service by net neutrality it has the potential to damage our ability to connect with others and share information. It is important for laws to be enacted that connectivity providers do not block, interfere, degrade or discriminate against any Internet traffic (that is lawful, mind you) based on how much people pay.
Visit SavetheINternet.com to fill out a simple form that will automatically email all your representatives in the government and the FCC about your feelings about net neutrality.
I use the internet… my life completely revolves around it… I work on it, play on it, keep in touch with my family on it. I read all of my news and watch most of my TV through it. To lock it down to help the agenda of ISP’s and big money corporation is fundamentally wrong. If the network was started and maintained in that fashion it would never have become such a powerful tool and driving force in todays society.
SO if you feel like crippling one of the biggest advances in freedom of information and speech in the past 1000 years then go for it, lock down the network and cripple the system. Ruin it for all of us so some lobbyists can get rich.
All sarcasm aside, keep the internet free, say yes to net neutrality and keep your dollars and politics off my data.
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Oh, noes, they’re going to break the internets!
Dude, if this goes through (and I see no reason why congress won’t pass this), then sites like Uneasy will probably get the shaft majorly, letting mainstream media catch up to blogs and other alternative media by giving the sites owned by companies like, say, Time Warner a major advantage online.
Imagine: record companies no longer give Youtube warnings about videos or even take Google to court but instead only have to get Time Warner (a major record label and net provider) to kill connection to their servers. Digg dies for the AACS key instead of being threatened. Anybody whom the net providers decides is bad loses their websites’ bandwidth, no matter how big the connection to the servers is.
The providers are just trying to find a way to screw people even worse, now, it seems. The arguments against net neutrality are invalid anyway, as the providers make more money off of sites that use more bandwidth due to the cost of larger and larger bandwidth connections.