[Upd-discuss] Fwd: Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

***Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now***
***forward widely***

After destroying TV and radio, mega-media corporations are scheming to
control what content you can view and which services you can use online.

Streaming video, Internet phones, podcasting and online games are the
future of the Internet. But companies like Verizon, AT&T and Comcast want
Congress to let them deliver only their own products at super-high speeds
... while sticking the rest of us in the slow lane.

This predatory scheme would be a dead end for independent voices and
Internet innovators: bloggers, producers, and any new channels and
services that might compete with the conglomerates.

The only way to stop them is to raise hell right now:

Tell Big Media and Congress: Hands Off Our Internet
<http://www.freepress.net/action/neutrality>

>From its beginnings, the Internet was built on a cooperative, democratic
ideal. The infrastructure’s only job was to move data between users —
regardless of where it came from or what it contained.

This “network neutrality” fostered a medium that did not exclude anyone,
allowed for far-reaching innovations, and created the Internet as we know
it.

Past experience shows that when large media companies are left to their
own devices, the result is content and services that serve nothing but
their bank accounts. An open and independent Internet is the antidote to
these media gatekeepers.

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 would be cut off from the digital revolution.

Tell Big Media and Congress: Hands Off Our Internet
<http://www.freepress.net/action/neutrality>

Free Press will deliver a letter to the CEO of your broadband provider and
send copies to your members of Congress, urging them to write “network
neutrality” into law.

Act now. We must defend our Net freedoms before we lose them altogether.

Onward,

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
www.freepress.net

P.S. Please forward this e-mail right now to everyone you know who uses
the Internet.

P.P.S Check out the new Free Press Web site — Dead End
<http://www.freepress.net/deadend/> for the Internet? — to learn more
about net neutrality and how to ensure that the Web remains an open road.

Zapopan Muela
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"Tiranos y autócratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo, 
el conocimiento, los libros y los periódicos son un peligro 
en potencia. Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso
de rebeldía en las cabezas de sus súbditos.
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"Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, 
learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. 
They can put independent and even rebelious ideas to the heads 
of their subjects."
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-- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle
in the Dark : El mundo y sus demonios: La ciencia como una luz en la 
oscuridad. México: Planeta, p. 390; New York: Ballantine Books, p. 362.

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