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From: The Nation Magazine [mailto:emailnation@thenation.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:06 PM
To: Peg.Griffin@worldnet.att.net
Subject: The End of the Internet?
Dear EmailNation Subscriber,
Think the Internet will always be the freewheeling, democratic information
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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
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As digital democracy expert Jeff Chester wrote on The Nation's site
<http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=2094:5609F> , "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."
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highway," an interesting coalition of public-interest groups like Common
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Internet. This would prohibit broadband providers from discriminating
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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
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