The time is now

I'd read a little about the issue of net neutrality but it really didn't register until I got an e-mail from a friend. Congress will be acting on it over the next week. Read the next paragraphs from www.savetheinternet.com and do the right thing: sign this petition telling your member of Congress to preserve Internet freedom

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http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C2130410-8ujN8nJ8gXEDnLWzD29YDA

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From www.savetheinternet.com

Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. Your local library shouldn’t have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to have its Web site open quickly on your computer.

Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. If the public doesn't speak up now, Congress will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign by telephone and cable companies that want to decide what you do, where you go, and what you watch online.

This isn’t just speculation -- we've already seen what happens elsewhere when the Internet's gatekeepers get too much control. Last year, Telus -- Canada's version of AT&T -- blocked their Internet customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to workers with whom the company was having a labor dispute. And Madison River, a North Carolina ISP, blocked its customers from using any competing Internet phone service.