Support Network Neutrality

So, recently there's been a big deal going on about "Network Neutrality." Currently, legislation has been proposed and is being considered in congress - this legislation has the potential to change the internet as we know it today. Pooey... =p .... not good for the little people who like to surf the internet, not good at all.

In short, the big-bad-greedy telecommunications giants such as AT&T, Comcast, & Verizon (can you tell I don't like them?), who are our internet service providers, want to get legislation passed to make it legal for them to charge internet content provider such as Google, iTunes, etc. a not-too-small fee for being able to send data quickly and reliably. Baaaaad idea. Why?

Commercially,doing away with net neutrality will most certainly jeopardize innovation, entrepreneurship, and fair competition on the net (which has been the hallmark and very essence of the Internet and the 20th century 'digital' revolution itself), by skewing the odds greatly towards the big, established companies with deep pockets. How can any startup or enterprising entrepreneur with a great idea and little budget compete in a world without net netrality?

More importantly, the lack of net neutrality will jeopardize us as consumers and end users as well. For one, this extra cost to the content providers is sure to trickle down in one form or another to us - the unwitting consumers. Furthermore, we don't want them to control the contents or how fast we have access to them either - it's called freedom of information.

Imagine, picking up the phone and calling our favorite fast food place Super Mario's, but instead of Super Mario's, the big-bad-greedy guys will answer and say "Please hold for connection to Super Mario's .... but if you want to have Wario's we can connect you right away (becuase they paid us money)!" uh... but we had called for Super Mario's... to which they will reply "In that case, hold for connection please," and then we'll be on hold for who knows how freaking long.... now imagine this happing on the internet while we visit our favorite sites or check email, how frustrating would what be? (here's a really funny clip about 'net neutrality' too)

Now something's definitely wrong with that.

If we want Super Mario's & had already paid for the freaking phone line, then give us Super Mario's. Don't give us Wario's just because Wario's has paid up for faster connection. Geez, this is not what the internet is all about.

We need to keep the network neutrality that we currently have.

The big-bad-greedy guys have been putting all their resources and efforts into lobbying our congress members in DC (such as big campaign contributions, etc.), so we need to muster all the collective support we need as consumers and let our voices be heard.

Please, I urge you all join the fight and help keep the networks free (before our oh-so-wise congress votes otherwise...).

www.savetheinternet.com provides many ways to make our collective voices heard (write our congressmen, write our local newspaper, etc etc etc)

Thanks ~ !