WE need to be the media! A free internet may be our only last hope. Once the 6 media groups that currently monopolize all of our "news" gets the go-ahead to split up the web, it will be the final nail in the coffin of the middle class - and US...
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies - including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner - want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.
They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. They want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video - while slowing down or blocking their competitors.
These companies have a new vision for the Internet. Instead of an even playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services - or those from big corporations that can afford the steep tolls - and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.
The big phone and cable companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to gut Net Neutrality, putting the future of the Internet at risk.
Net Neutrality: Giving the bureaucrats of the FCC the power to determine what should be allowed online and what shouldn't be, based on a "we'll know it when we see it" approach. Yes, that makes me feel safe.
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