Re: [xmca] Re: The End of the Internet?

From: bb (xmca-whoever@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 08:40:03 PST


No problem. Just send CEO's of these companies hunting with Double-O-Cheney.

bb

On Monday 13 February 2006 4:25 pm, David Daniel Preiss Contreras wrote:
> How this would affect non-American users? Any idea? Would people in Africa
> be
> asked a fee for posting something or itīs "just" the issue of broadband?
> Alas!
> So many things decided in the American congress affecting people worldwide.
> I
> wish "we" had some representatives there.
> David
>
> Peg Griffin writes:
> > _____
> >
> > 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 superhighway you've grown to rely on? Well, think again.
> > Corporate media giants are working behind the scenes
> > <http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=2099:5609F> 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
> > <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."
> >
> > To ward off the prospect of "virtual toll booths on the information
> > highway," an interesting coalition of public-interest groups like Common
> > Cause <http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=209A:5609F> and Free Press
> > <http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=209B:5609F> , along with new media
> > companies like Amazon.com <http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=209D:5609F> ,
> > are calling for new federal policies requiring "network neutrality" on
> > the Internet. This would prohibit broadband providers from discriminating
> > against any forms of digital content. 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 here
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> >
> >
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