Today is ‘Internet Strikes Back’ day
p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- Today is “Internet Strikes Back” day — 24 hours after members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing to unveil legislation designed to roll back current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Net Neutrality rules and prohibit the Commission from enacting future rules.
Today members of the public are being asked to call their member of Congress to “counter Congressional opposition to a fair and open Internet”, says Public Knowledge, which is organising the campaign.
On February 16 Congress staged a hearing on Net Neutrality”, said PK, continuing >>>
If passed, this repeal wouldn’t just scrap the rules–it would also prevent the agency from taking action on this important issue in the future.
Without this framework, internet service providers will be free to discriminate against users, services and types of traffic at will.
And Sign our student letter”, says PK. “If you’re a student, please sign our student letter to Congress. We’ll deliver this letter to Members of Congress at the end of the month, in order to demonstrate that students all over the country support net neutrality.”
Stay tuned.
February, 2011
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation ~ Marshall McLuhan
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March 7th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Two post that were against so called “net neutrality” have been deleted. Maybe too late now but YOUTUBE: Net Neutrality for Dummies: Will the FCC control the Internet?