[Mb-civic] Fw: The End of the Internet?

[Barbara Siomos]

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From: The Nation Magazine
Sent: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:01:54 -0800
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Subject: The End of the Internet?

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Think the Internet will always be the freewheeling, democratic
information superhighway you've grown to rely on? Well, think again.
Corporate media giants are working behind the scenes to convince a
clueless and compliant Congress to privatize the Internet. The telecom
and cable giants want to fence off the Internet with one area for the
haves--who will pay a premium to enjoy life in the fast lane--and the
other for the have-nots.

As digital democracy expert Jeff Chester wrote on The Nation's site,
"The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an
alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and
nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded
service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do
online." http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=2094:56B75

To ward off the prospect of "virtual toll booths on the information
highway," an interesting coalition of public-interest groups like
Common Cause and Free Press, along with new media companies like
Amazon.com, are calling for new federal policies requiring "network
neutrality" on the Internet. In this way Internet service providers
would be regulated like telephone companies, and couldn't simply
decide to block their customers' access to legal websites.

Congress will vote on the issue sometime soon. Now is the time to make
your voice heard. Click below to see how you can help defend net
neutrality. http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=2093:56B75

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