Save the Net campaign
p2p news / p2pnet: The people who run the largest cable and telephone companies are hatching a scheme to give them control over what content you can view and what services you can use on the Internet, says Freepress.net, going on:.
"Their plan would do away with the principle of "network neutrality" and shut down the open roadway we’ve come to expect on the Internet.
"If big media companies are allowed to limit the fastest services to those who can pay their toll, upstart Web services, consumers, bloggers and new media makers alike all could be cut off from digital revolution.
"When large media companies are left to their own devices, the result is always content and services that serve no one but themselves. An open and independent Internet is the antidote to these predatory practices."
Freepress has an online letter anyone for anyone who wants to make his or her views known.
It reads:
Dear (Company CEO):
I strongly urge you to cease all plans to violate the principle of network neutrality. Your control of the "pipes" on which information travels does not give you the right to dictate what I can do online.
As a subscriber to your service, I demand that your company guarantee that all Internet users are entitled to:
1. Access the Internet content of our choice;
2. Run online applications and services of our choice;
3. Connect our choice of devices; and
4. Have fair competition among network, application, service and content providers.
From its beginnings, the Internet was built on a cooperative, democratic ideal. Your only job as a network provider is to move data between users. You must not block or discriminate against any of the legal content and services available online.
A copy of this letter has been sent to my elected representatives in Washington to ensure that Congress and the FCC work to put enforceable network neutrality principles into our telecommunications laws and regulations.
(Thanks, Maggie)
Also See:
Freepress.net – Internet Freedom Under Fire, January 25, 2006
January 26th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Not true.
The Oz government cannot tell a US company what to do if they do not have a presence in Oz. If Bell South decided to block all access to/from Oz, the only thing that the Oz government can do is to file a complaint with US authorities.