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Help save the Internet!!

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Congress is pushing a law that will abolish Net Neutrality, a concept which deams that all data must be treated equally. A multi million dollar lobby campaign is being set by big corporations such as Verizon and AT&T, to allow them to control the content we see and put on the internet. If we don't act now to stop this within a couple of years we will be paying a higher price to acess the web, and we will not be able to view half the content we can view now, and those websites that can't pay extra high fees to use the internet will have to run at a slower speed and lower priority, making it extremly hard to access. Moreover these large corporations will have the power to ban any website they see as "inappropriate" or "against common interests".

But there's hope! If all us internet surfers rally together we can stop this atrocity from happenning. Contact your local senator and congressman and let them know that you support Net Neutrality, and that you are for the Snowe-Dorgan "Internet Freedom Preservation Act" (S 2917)
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Post by CPT Worm »

This is silly. Nothing like this would pass. It would be a violation of freedom of speech. Not directly, but if you can argue correctly, you can prove that this is passive censorship with a touch of anti-trust.
Besides, the United States only makes up a part of the world wide web. Even if our government abolishes net neutrality, which they won't because they're not some sort of fascist government, people could move to hosts in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
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