The Internet is for sale. Do you want to buy it? More importantly, do you want to pay more for the privilege of navigating? Would you like big business and / or government regulators telling you where you can and cannot go? How would like to have your traffic slowed by the fact that the site you wish to visit wasn’t wealthy enough to be in a top, high speed tier?
Those who wish to do away with Net Neutrality are proposing just that kind of Internet.
In this new Internet, blogs like this, like yours might not even exist. The freewheeling Internet, as we know it may, in fact, become history.
Do you like the idea of pay-per-visit Internet?
No?
Join the fight to preserve Net Neutrality.
In addition to the potential death of the Internet, the media reform group, freepress, outlines and advocates change for the media at large. A media, supposedly owned, by the public, but controlled by conglomerates and big business is in need of an overhaul. The charge is for us, the American public, who has and continues to pay trillions, to fight and demand a better the return on our investment.
Go. Read. Act.
Go Deborah!!
ReplyDeleteSorry, gotta disagree on this one... net neutrality is a made up cause that google and yahoo and other huge rich companies are trying to foist off on the unsuspecting public because they don't want to pay for their own massive use of bandwidth that telecom companies are currently footing the bill for (and passing along to their customers, of course).
ReplyDeleteof course, that's also an extreme interpretation on the other side of the issue.
Hi Elizabeth, I happen to agree with "this girl i used to know". I've been working with net neutrality for awhile now and I encourage you to do some more research on the issue.
ReplyDeleteInternet service providers just want to make upgrades to the net's infrastructure to make it as efficient as possible so, for example, you or I can download movies and upload videos seamlessly without interruption.
Net neutrality laws will limit consumer choice and drive costs up for consumers. This is why we at the Hands Off the Internet Coalition are opposed to these types of stifling government regulations. There are some serious unintended consequences out there that Google and eBay don't want you to know about.
Regards,
HandsOff43
Your side of the argument is not as simple as you state. I've done enough 'research on the issue' to know that much.
ReplyDeleteThere are serious unintended consequences in just about everything.
We live in a world where you constantly have to choose between the lesser of two evils. This is certainly one of those cases. I do not wear rose colored glasses and I would like to think you don't either.
You got that right! Cheers!
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