DAILY KOS

[bdamomma]

banning Daily Kos??????????

please read this.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/25/92920/4680


They're Going To Ban Daily Kos
by davej
Thu May 25, 2006 at 06:29:20 AM PDT
Yes, this is the subject of other posts and diaries. But this is just too important, so I am echoing and repeating, to try to get phone calls out to members of Congress TODAY. Maybe this diary will generate one or two more phone calls.

The Republicans are trying to "deregulate" the Internet. They're about to allow the big telecommunications companies to decide which websites their customers (YOU) can and can't see. This is what "Net Neutrality" is about. If you are against letting big companies decide what websites you can see, that means you are in favor of Net Neutrality.

MAKE NO MISTAKE about what this will mean.

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. And to think I have had many, many, many computer people tell me it is

IMPOSSIBLE to regulate the internets.:( Apparently, it's not impossible.

The RW has to get a stranglehold on the Internets because they know how powerful it is for the Dems/Liberals/Progressive. It's also dangerous for them because we actually get TRUTH and INFORMATION that their corporate owned MSM doesn't give us. Control. They must have control in order to control what info gets out and when.

Bastards.

[bdamomma]

2. all the more reason to stop them from

controlling the Internet, I believe if god forbid, if anything happens to our way of getting the truth, that it will not stop us from us getting the truth. We will unite.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. They can't control all the internets!

Some of us still remember how to hook up our own box and tap into the stream.

A 'home network' is basically an internet.

If this bill passes, there will be a lot of old hackers pulling equipment out of storage, and creating their own. It could get very interesting. :evilgrin:

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. What about people like me? I'm computer illiterate. Would there be no ISP

anymore? How will this work? Would I be able to hire a geek to set me up so I still have access to the Internets without going through a service provider? OR, will it be illegal for computer techs to do that?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. You would need a serious geek to set you up

luckily, I happen to know several. :) I only know the basics of how it worked. They used to have underground bbs boards that you would access by dialup modem. Computer to computer over phone lines, no service provider in the middle.

[Uncle Joe]

4. The MSM has begun to refer to us as the liberal blogosphere

whatever happened to just blogoshpere, has Free Republic closed? They used the same modus operandi on taking over the MSM. First they label it as liberal, then they buy it up and turn it in to their own monopoly.

[bmbmd]

7. This outfit, which advertises on Drudge and elsewhere

clalims that it is indeed liberal Democrats, Nancy Pelosi and moveon.org who want to regulate the internet.

http://www.internetfreedomcoalition.org/welcome.html

[babylonsister]

8. Did you see this post, Victory for the Internet, thanks to kpete?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1283291

Victory for the Internet Updated at 3:59 PM

Thursday, May 25, 2006

V For Victory

by digby

Give a big shout out to Move-On and Matt Stoller for successfully turning out grassroots support for net neutrality. It just passed the House judiciary committee 20-13.

This was a real grassroots victory --- until recently, it seemed like an easy gimme to the wealthy telcos. This is good news for us intrepid bloggers, but it's good news for the internet in general. Much like the FEC regulations that we managed to stave off earlier my support for net neutrality not based upon a general disdain for regulation. Regulation is often a necessary thing. But this medium is just too new, too important and too democratizing to allow corporate interests to sneak in the back door with phony concerns designed simply to enhance their profits at others' expense.

If the internet needs regulating in some presently unimagined way, I'm sure we will all see it. Right now, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_digbysblog_ar...

[rndmprsn]

9. Update: We won the vote

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/25/114047/768

Update: We won the vote, 20-13-1, with all Democrats voting the right way except Delahunt who voted 'present'!!!

The net neutrality issue vote is today in the House Judiciary Committee. I just received an updated whip list of Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee and where they stand. This is for support of the Sensenbrenner-Conyers bill HR 5417 supporting net neutrality. If one of these is your representatives, especially the leaners, please pick up the phone. If not, please just recommend the diary. This is crunch time. You are moving votes.