Save The Internet Or You’ll Pay
Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 27 of April , 2007 at 9:22 am
Yesterday, SaveTheInternet.com celebrated its first birthday. This is the organization fighting to keep Verizon and AT&T from stripping away your right and mine to the use of a free Internet. These large communications companies want to create a high band Internet for government and people willing to pay the price and then a slower “lane” for everyone else - that is, small business owners, non-profit organizations, and people who won’t be able to afford the elite steak dinner along with the keynote address.
There’s a great article in today’s WebProNews on one senator, Byron Dorgan, who is criticizing his colleague Ted Stevens and AT&T head cheese Ed Whitacre for their evil scheme. Essentially, good guys like Dorgan want to keep the Net open to everyone while the bad guys want to build a wall between the haves and the have nots. And if this happens there will be more have nots than haves, but there won’t be power in numbers - unless numbers refers to the number of dollar bills you carry in your pocket.
I encourage you all to swing by the SaveTheInternet website and sign their petition, if you’ve not done so already. And while you’re at it vote for them for the 2007 Webby Award. They’re in second place right now. Voting ends today.
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